Sutton Howgrave in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Sutton Howgrave is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hallikeld in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Hallikeld
- Brampton [Hall]
- Caldeuuelle
- Cundall
- Dishforth
- Ellenthorpe [Hall]
- Givendale
- Hashundebi
- Holme
- Howgrave
- Hutton [Conyers]
- Kirby [Hill]
- Leckby [Palace]
- Markington
- Milby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Sutton Howgrave 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 Sutton Howgrave.
Listed Buildings Near Sutton Howgrave
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Sutton Howgrave. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Howgrave Old Hall - 0.36 km
- Gatepiers and Wall to North of Howgrave Hall - 0.42 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Sutton Howgrave
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Sutton Howgrave:
- Medieval settlement, lordly residence, post medieval gardens and walls immediately south of Howgrave Hall - 0.43 km
- Moated site at Upsland Farm - 1.22 km
Sutton Howgrave Today
Today Sutton Howgrave lies within the administrative area of Sutton with Howgrave, and the settlement recorded a population of 70 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Sutton Howgrave on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Howgrave - 0.0 km N
- Upsland - 1.0 km W
- Kirklington - 2.0 km N
- Yarnwick - 2.0 km N
- Middleton Quernhow - 2.2 km SE
- Wath - 2.2 km SE
Heritage Around Sutton [Howgrave]
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.
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · 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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