Sinnington appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Sinnington at 1 carucate of taxable land.

The survey records Sinnington’s value at 5d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Other Settlements in Maneshou

The Meaning of the Name

The name Sinnington 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 Sinnington.

Listed Buildings Near Sinnington

Historic England records 20 listed buildings within about a mile of Sinnington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Barn Approximately 10 Metres North East of the Hall - 0.62 km

Grade II*

Church of All Saints - 0.58 km

Grade II

Elmsall House, and associated structures including Elmsall Barn - 0.14 km
The Fox and Hounds Inn, Attached Cottage and Outbuilding and Railings to Front - 0.19 km
Willow Cottage - 0.19 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - 0.28 km
Wesleyan Methodist Church - 0.28 km
Bridge Approximately 35 Metres South West of the Village Hall - 0.39 km
Sinnington Bridge - 0.4 km
Bridge House and Attached Garage - 0.43 km
Bridge Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings - 0.44 km
Stripe Cottage - 0.46 km
Seven House - 0.47 km
Friars Hill Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.49 km
Church Lane Cottage - 0.51 km
Riverside Farmhouse - 0.53 km
Chest Tomb and Railings Approximately 1.75 Metres East of All Saints Church - 0.59 km
Vicarage - 0.59 km
Mile Post - 0.79 km
Sinnington Lodge and Attached Garden Wall - 0.88 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Sinnington

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Sinnington:

The Old Hall, 50m north west of All Saints Church - 0.63 km

Sinnington Today

Today Sinnington lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 293 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 Sinnington on Wikipedia .