Stillington appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The name Stillington 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 Stillington.

Listed Buildings Near Stillington

Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Stillington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Nicholas - 0.47 km

Grade II

The Cottage - 0.32 km
Weddels Cottage - 0.33 km
Chandlers - 0.35 km
Famars - 0.36 km
Dene House - 0.37 km
Wandell House - 0.38 km
Cobble Cottage Sycamore Cottage - 0.39 km
Northside - 0.5 km
Northside - 0.5 km
Wren House - 0.51 km
Fairview Cottage - 0.52 km
Fairview - 0.52 km
Admiral House - 0.64 km
Cottage Farmhouse - 0.69 km
The Folly - 0.78 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Stillington

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Stillington:

Augustinian nunnery known as Moxby Priory including mill and post Dissolution garden features - 1.26 km

Stillington Today

Today Stillington lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 825 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 Stillington on Wikipedia .