Skelton Grange in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Skelton Grange is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Skyrack

• Adel
• Allerton [Bywater]
• Alwoodley
• Arthington
• Austhorpe
• Baildon
• Bardsey
• Barwick [in Elmet]
• Bichertun
• Bicherun
• Bingley
• Birkby [Hill]
• Bramhope
• Burden [Head]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Skelton Grange 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 Grange.

Listed Buildings Near Skelton Grange

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Skelton Grange. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Stable to North of Machine Shop to East of Thwaite Mill - 0.81 km
• Machine Shop to East of Thwaite Mill - 0.82 km
• Warehouse, Office and Drying Floor to South East of Thwaite Mill - 0.84 km
• Bridge Over Mill Stream to East of Thwaite Mill With Retaining Wall on South Side of Mill Race - 0.85 km
• Thwaite Mill - 0.86 km
• Thwaite House - 0.88 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Thorpe Stapleton - 1.4 km SE
• Hunslet - 2.0 km W
• Halton - 2.8 km NE
• Scotton Thorpe - 2.8 km SE
• Coldcotes - 3.0 km N
• Colton - 3.2 km E