Stapleton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Stapleton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Osgodcross
- Arksey
- Badsworth
- Beal
- Burgh[wallis]
- Campsall
- Darrington
- Featherstone
- Ferry [Fryston]
- Hamphall [Stubbs]
- Hensall
- Hessle
- Kellington
- Knottingley
- Minsthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Stapleton 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 Stapleton.
Listed Buildings Near Stapleton
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Stapleton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- The Old Stable Court to Stapleton Park - 0.94 km
Grade II
- Castle Farmhouse - 0.98 km
- Village Pump and Trough - 1.23 km
- Village Cross - 1.23 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Stapleton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Stapleton:
Stapleton Today
Today Stapleton lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 63 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 Stapleton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Womersley - 2.2 km SE
- Darrington - 3.2 km W
- Kirk and Little Smeaton - 3.2 km S
- Walden Stubbs - 5.0 km SE
- Thorpe Audlin - 5.0 km SW
- Norton - 5.0 km SE
Heritage Around Stapleton
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.
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · 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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