South Otterington in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of South Otterington is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Allerton
- Ainderby [Steeple]
- Appleton [Wiske]
- Arncliffe [Hall]
- Birkby
- Borrowby
- Brompton
- Cowesby
- Crosby [Grange]
- Dale [Town]
- Deighton
- Ellerbeck
- Foxton
- Girsby
- Hawnby
The Meaning of the Name
The name South Otterington 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 Otterington.
Listed Buildings Near South Otterington
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of South Otterington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- The Old Rectory - 0.48 km
- Church of St Andrew - 0.48 km
- South Otterington Bridge - 0.59 km
- Former Otterington Railway Station including the station building, signal box, weighbridge office and associated features - 0.66 km
- Home Farm - 0.76 km
- Ivy Cottages - 0.87 km
- Limehurst - 0.89 km
- Methodist Chapel - 0.91 km
- Malt House Rosebank - 0.93 km
- Pump in Front of Village School - 0.93 km
- 6, Main Street - 0.94 km
- Cherry Tree House - 0.96 km
- Newby Wiske Hall - 0.98 km
- Pear Tree Cottage Rose Cottage the Cottage - 1.0 km
- Otterington Hall - 1.05 km
South Otterington Today
Today South Otterington lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 338 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 South Otterington on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Thornton le Moor - 1.4 km NE
- North Otterington - 2.2 km NW
- Solberge - 2.8 km NW
- Kirby Wiske - 3.0 km S
- Newsham - 3.0 km S
- Crosby Grange - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around [South] Otterington
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.
© David Cowling · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · 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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