Stockton on the Forest in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Stockton on the Forest, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Bulford
- Aldwark
- Alne
- Barnby [House]
- Barton [le Willows]
- Beningbrough
- Bossall
- Brafferton
- Brandsby
- Bulmer
- Buttercrambe
- Carlton [Farm]
- Claxton
- Coneysthorpe
- Corburn
The Meaning of the Name
The name Stockton on the Forest 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 Stockton on the Forest.
Listed Buildings Near Stockton on the Forest
Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Stockton on the Forest. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Forest House - 0.31 km
- Stockton House - 0.31 km
- 92, the Village - 0.36 km
- 93, the Village - 0.38 km
- Stockton-on-the-Forest War Memorial - 0.43 km
- Park Farmhouse - 0.47 km
- Elm Tree Farmhouse - 0.49 km
- 71, the Village - 0.5 km
- 69, the Village - 0.5 km
- Stables to Stockton Hall - 0.55 km
- Stockton Hall - 0.58 km
- Stockton Grange and Attached Outbuilding - 0.58 km
- Milepost Approximately 500 Metres South of Stockton Hermitage - 0.82 km
- The Old Rectory - 0.96 km
Stockton on the Forest Today
Today Stockton on the Forest lies within the administrative area of City of York, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,384 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 Stockton-on-the-Forest on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Carlton Farm - 2.0 km E
- Warthill - 2.2 km SE
- Holtby - 2.8 km SE
- Earswick - 3.2 km W
- Sandburn House - 3.2 km N
- Towthorpe - 3.6 km NW
Heritage Around Stockton [on the Forest]
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.
© William Metcalfe · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alison Stamp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© DS Pugh · 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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