Stockton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Stockton, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Skyrack

• Adel
• Allerton [Bywater]
• Alwoodley
• Arthington
• Austhorpe
• Baildon
• Bardsey
• Barwick [in Elmet]
• Bichertun
• Bicherun
• Bingley
• Birkby [Hill]
• Bramhope
• Burden [Head]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Stockton 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.

Listed Buildings Near Stockton

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Stockton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Stockton Grange Farmhouse - 0.25 km
• Milestone Opposite Entrance to New Laithe Farm - 0.45 km
• Farfield Farm Barn - 1.05 km
• Moorend Farmhouse - 1.26 km
• Quadrant Walls and Piers to East Fronts of Number 1 and the Vicarage - 1.29 km
• Number 1 and Attached Screen Wall - 1.3 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Stockton

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

• Harewood Castle - 1.4 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Harewood - 1.0 km W
• Mortune - 1.0 km W
• Newhall - 1.0 km W
• Kearby Town End - 1.4 km NE
• Barrowby Grange - 2.0 km N
• Lofthouse - 2.2 km SW