Steeton Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
Steeton Hall is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Ainsty
- Acaster [Malbis]
- Acaster [Selby]
- Acomb
- Appleton [Roebuck]
- Askham [Bryan]
- Askham [Richard]
- Bickerton
- Bilbrough
- Bilton
- Bishopthorpe
- Bithen
- Bolton [Percy]
- Catterton
- Colton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Steeton Hall 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 Steeton Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Steeton Hall
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Steeton Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Steeton Hall Farm - 0.38 km
Grade II
- Archway and Wall Adjoining South-west Corner of Steeton Hall Farm Running South For Approximately 20 Metres - 0.41 km
- Colton Lodge - 0.42 km
- Pigeoncote to Colton Lodge - 0.43 km
- Ye Olde Sun Inne - 0.84 km
- Milestone Approximately 100 Metres South of Junction With Colton Lane - 1.23 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Steeton Hall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Steeton Hall:
Steeton Hall Today
Today Steeton Hall lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 48 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 Steeton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Colton - 1.0 km E
- Bilbrough - 2.0 km N
- Catterton - 2.2 km NW
- Pallathorpe - 2.8 km SW
- Appleton Roebuck - 2.8 km SE
- Bolton Percy - 3.0 km S
Heritage Around Steeton [Hall]
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.
© DS Pugh · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© DS Pugh · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · 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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