The settlement of Sturton Grange is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Sturton Grange at 1 carucate of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Sturton Grange supported a recorded population of 17 villagers, 1 smallholder, working 4 ploughs between them.

The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Sturton Grange was worth 1.5 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 1 shilling – a fall of 33%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

Resources Recorded at Sturton Grange (1086)

Meadow: 3 acres
Woodland: 1 * 1 furlongs

Other Settlements in Skyrack

The Meaning of the Name

The name Sturton Grange 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 Sturton Grange.

Listed Buildings Near Sturton Grange

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Sturton Grange. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Milepost at Se431331 - 0.63 km
Brady Farm Bridge, HUL4/15 - 0.7 km
Roman Ridge Road Bridge, HUL4/14 - 0.82 km
Milepost at SE421344 - 1.1 km

Sturton Grange Today

Today Sturton Grange lies within the administrative area of Leeds, and the settlement recorded a population of 355 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 Sturton Grange on Wikipedia .