Stapleton Terne is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Stapleton Terne at 7 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Stapleton Terne supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 5 smallholders, 6 freemanmen, working 3 ploughs between them.

Something went badly wrong here between the two surveys. Before 1066, Stapleton Terne was worth 4 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 2 shillings – a fall of 50%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

Resources Recorded at Stapleton Terne (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 4d)
Woodland: 200 acres

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Stapleton Terne 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 Terne.

Listed Buildings Near Stapleton Terne

Historic England records 29 listed buildings within about a mile of Stapleton Terne. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Hawkshead Farmhouse - 0.29 km
Church of St Michael Holy Trinity - 0.36 km

Grade II

9, the Nook - 0.21 km
Cobblers Lodge - 0.23 km
8, the Nook - 0.26 km
The Original Block at Crosshills School - 0.32 km
Blue Anchor Hotel - 0.34 km
Cross Base in St Michael’s Churchyard - 0.34 km
Church of St Mary - 0.34 km
Garden Wall to St. Michael’s Lane - 0.36 km
60 and 62, Main Road - 0.36 km
Bolton Lodge - 0.39 km
Meeting Hall (Former Free Grammar School) - 0.4 km
St Michael’s Cottage and Hillcroft - 0.42 km
Darwen House - 0.42 km
13, Town End - 0.43 km
Lancaster Canal Bolton Church Bridge (Number 122) - 0.43 km
Packet Boat Hotel - 0.5 km
7, Town End - 0.51 km
6 and 7, Packet Lane - 0.52 km
2, Town End - 0.54 km
Lancaster Canal Bolton Turnpike Bridge (Number 123) - 0.56 km
Pinfold, 200 Metres South of Junction With Mill Lane - 0.82 km
Lancaster Canal Chorleys Bridge (Number 124) (To Rear of Number 23 Main Road) - 0.95 km

…and 5 more listed structures in the area.

Stapleton Terne Today

Today Stapleton Terne lies within the administrative area of Lancaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 4,197 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 Bolton-le-Sands on Wikipedia .