Spaunton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Spaunton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Maneshou
- Amotherby
- Ampleforth
- Appleton [le Street]
- Beadlam
- Brawby
- Broughton
- Cawton
- Coulton
- Fadmoor
- Fryton
- Gillamoor
- Gilling [East]
- Griff [Farm]
- Grimston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Spaunton 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 Spaunton.
Listed Buildings Near Spaunton
Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of Spaunton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Mary - 0.99 km
Grade II
- Woodmans Cottage - 0.47 km
- Pound - 0.48 km
- Hill Top Farmhouse - 0.61 km
- Victoria Cross - 0.65 km
- Jackson’s Bridge - 0.94 km
- Headstone Approximately 10 Metres South East of St Mary’s Church - 0.99 km
- St Ovins Well - 1.01 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 1.01 km
- Home Farmhouse - 1.01 km
- Mount Pleasant Farmhouse - 1.02 km
- St Cedd’s Well - 1.03 km
- Vicarage - 1.04 km
- The Old Mill - 1.05 km
- St Cedds House - 1.05 km
- Stable Block Attached to North East of the Old Mill - 1.06 km
- St Chad’s Well - 1.11 km
- High Cross - 1.19 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Spaunton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Spaunton:
- High Cross wayside cross on Kirkgate Lane, north of Appleton-le-Moors - 1.18 km
- Low Cross, a reused standing stone on Kirkgate Lane in Appleton-le-Moors - 1.51 km
Spaunton Today
Today Spaunton lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 73 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 Spaunton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Baschebi - 1.0 km N
- Baschesbi - 1.0 km N
- Lastingham - 1.0 km N
- Appleton le Moors - 1.4 km SE
- Hutton le Hole - 2.2 km NW
- Cropton - 3.0 km E
Heritage Around Spaunton
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.
© Colin Grice · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Colin Grice · 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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