Skipton on Swale in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Skipton on Swale, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Yarlestre
- Arden [Hall]
- Asenby
- Bagby
- Baxby
- Bergebi
- Berghebi
- Bernebi
- Boltby
- Breckenbrough
- Carlton [Husthwaite]
- Carlton [Miniott]
- Catton
- Coxwold
- Crakehill
The Meaning of the Name
The name Skipton on Swale 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 Skipton on Swale.
Listed Buildings Near Skipton on Swale
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Skipton on Swale. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Skipton Hall - 0.26 km
- Skipton House - 0.35 km
- Swale Bridge - 0.38 km
- Church of St John the Evangelist - 0.39 km
- Skipton Bridge - 0.39 km
- Howe Hall - 1.08 km
- Pump to Rear of Howe Hall - 1.08 km
- The Farm - 1.16 km
- The Orchard - 1.24 km
- The Rookery - 1.26 km
Skipton on Swale Today
Today Skipton on Swale lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 85 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 Skipton-on-Swale on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Skipton [on Swale]
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.
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© 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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