Shitlington in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Shitlington, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Agbrigg

• Ackton
• Almondbury
• Austonley
• Bradley
• Cartworth
• Crigglestone
• Crofton
• Dalton
• Emley
• Farnley [Tyas]
• Flockton
• Fulstone
• Golcar
• Hepworth

The Meaning of the Name

The name Shitlington 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 Shitlington.

Listed Buildings Near Shitlington

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Shitlington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• 60,60A,62,64, New Road - 0.23 km
• Milepost Adjacent to White Swan Public House - 0.26 km

Shitlington Today

Today Shitlington lies within the administrative area of Sitlington.

Read more about modern Middlestown on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Thornhill - 2.2 km NW
• Horbury - 3.2 km E
• Upper Denby - 3.2 km W
• Ossett - 3.2 km N
• Lower Whitley - 4.0 km W
• Earlsheaton - 4.1 km N