Stiltons Farm in the Domesday Book (1086)

Stiltons Farm appears in the Domesday Book of 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 origin of the name Stiltons Farm is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Stiltons Farm.

Listed Buildings Near Stiltons Farm

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Stiltons Farm. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Milestone East South East of Rievaulx Village - 0.23 km
• Stiltons Farm - 0.31 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Stiltons Farm

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Stiltons Farm:

• Griff Cross, wayside cross 800m NNE of Griff Farm on the road from Helmsley to Rievaulx - 0.52 km
• Griff medieval settlement and Cistercian monastic grange, 400m west of Griff Farm - 1.38 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Griff Farm - 1.4 km SW
• Helmsley - 2.2 km SE
• Sproxton - 3.6 km SE
• Old Byland - 4.1 km W
• Pockley - 4.5 km NE
• Scawton - 5.1 km W