South Anston in the Domesday Book (1086)
South Anston is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
The Meaning of the Name
The name South Anston 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 South Anston.
Listed Buildings Near South Anston
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of South Anston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St James - 0.43 km
Grade II
- South Anston Manor House - 0.32 km
- Laurel Bank - 0.39 km
- Anston Bridge - 0.87 km
- Lodge Farmhouse - 1.06 km
- 7, Hillside - 1.08 km
- 16, Main Street - 1.11 km
- High House - 1.12 km
- Mulberry Farmhouse Including Attached Outbuilding - 1.16 km
- 18, the Green - 1.2 km
- The Gate House - 1.21 km
- Chesterfield Canal Thorpe Bridge - 1.27 km
Scheduled Monuments Near South Anston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of South Anston:
- Dead Man’s Cave, Anston - 1.16 km
South Anston Today
Today South Anston lies within the administrative area of Anston.
Read more about modern South Anston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- North Anston - 1.4 km NE
- Kiveton - 2.0 km W
- Todwick - 2.2 km NW
- Dinnington - 2.2 km NE
- Thorpe Salvin - 2.2 km SE
- Throapham - 3.2 km N
Heritage Around [South] Anston
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.
© Richard Croft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© SMJ · 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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