Skelton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Skelton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Bulford
- Aldwark
- Alne
- Barnby [House]
- Barton [le Willows]
- Beningbrough
- Bossall
- Brafferton
- Brandsby
- Bulmer
- Buttercrambe
- Carlton [Farm]
- Claxton
- Coneysthorpe
- Corburn
The Meaning of the Name
The name Skelton 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 Skelton.
Listed Buildings Near Skelton
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Skelton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Giles - 0.26 km
Grade II*
- Skelton Manor - 0.25 km
Grade II
- Pyramid House - 0.23 km
- Grange Farmhouse - 0.32 km
- Skelton Hall - 0.33 km
- Toll Bar Cottage - 0.4 km
- Milepost Opposite Fairfield Manor - 0.93 km
- Ice House Approximately One Hundred Metres South of Fairfield Manor - 1.04 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Skelton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Skelton:
Skelton Today
Today Skelton lies within the administrative area of City of York, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,627 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 Skelton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Nether Poppleton - 1.0 km S
- Wide Open Farm - 1.4 km NE
- Mortun - 1.4 km SW
- Overton - 1.4 km SW
- Scagglethorpe - 2.2 km SW
- Rawcliffe - 2.2 km SE
Heritage Around Skelton
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
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© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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