Seaton Ross in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Seaton Ross is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Cave

• Aughton
• Drewton
• Ellerton
• Everthorpe
• Foggathorpe
• Gribthorpe
• Hotham
• Laytham
• Melbourne
• Thornton
• Yokefleet [Grange]
• [East] Cottingwith
• [High and Low] Hunsley
• [Kettle]thorpe

The Meaning of the Name

The name Seaton Ross is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Seaton Ross.

Listed Buildings Near Seaton Ross

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Seaton Ross. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Church of Saint Edmund - 0.5 km
• Mains Farmhouse - 0.51 km
• House Opposite West End - 0.81 km
• West View - 0.86 km
• Cottage to Left of West View - 0.87 km
• Rose Farmhouse - 1.09 km
• Old Mill - 1.18 km

Seaton Ross Today

Today Seaton Ross lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 551 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Seaton Ross on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Bielby - 2.0 km N
• Everingham - 2.2 km NE
• Allerthorpe - 3.0 km N
• Harswell - 4.1 km E
• Melbourne - 4.2 km NW
• Laytham - 4.5 km SW