South Dalton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of South Dalton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Sneculfcros in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Sneculfcros
- Aike
- Beswick
- Beverley
- Bracken
- Dunnington
- Etton
- Gardham
- Grimston
- Holme [on the Wolds]
- Ianulfestorp
- Kilnwick
- Leconfield
- Lockington
- Middleton [on the Wolds]
The Meaning of the Name
The name South Dalton 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 Dalton.
Listed Buildings Near South Dalton
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of South Dalton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of Saint Mary - 0.14 km
Grade II*
- Dalton Hall - 1.1 km
Grade II
- 4, West End - 0.07 km
- 8 and 10, Main Street - 0.08 km
- Pump House at the Almshouses - 0.09 km
- The Almshouses - 0.1 km
- 9, Main Street - 0.1 km
- 14, West End - 0.14 km
- 26, West End - 0.19 km
- 23, Main Street - 0.28 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.3 km
- Oak Cottage - 0.31 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.93 km
- 16, East Street - 0.93 km
- The Stables at Dalton Hall - 1.2 km
South Dalton Today
Today South Dalton lies within the administrative area of Dalton Holme.
Read more about modern South Dalton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [South] Dalton
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.
© Neil Smith · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger Gilbertson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Church · 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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