Sutton on Hull in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Sutton on Hull is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]
- Aldbrough
- Benningholme [Hall]
- Bewick [Hall]
- Bilton
- Burton [Constable]
- Burton [Pidsea]
- Conis[ton]
- Danthorpe
- Dowthorpe [Hall]
- Drypool
- Ellerby
- Elstronwick
- Eske
- Etherdwick
The Meaning of the Name
The name Sutton on Hull 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 on Hull.
Listed Buildings Near Sutton on Hull
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Sutton on Hull. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St James and Boundary Wall - 0.52 km
Grade II
- 27, 28 and 29, Lowgate - 0.33 km
- Victoria Cottage - 0.34 km
- Jessamine Cottage - 0.39 km
- Ann Watson College and Adjoining Boundary Wall and Railings - 0.42 km
- Sutton House - 0.44 km
- Chamberlain Almshouses - 0.45 km
- 96 and 98, Church Street - 0.51 km
- The Old School - 0.58 km
- Greenacre and Adjoining Boundary Wall - 0.61 km
- Sutton Grange - 1.0 km
Sutton on Hull Today
Today Sutton on Hull lies within the administrative area of City of Kingston upon Hull, and the settlement recorded a population of 12,649 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-on-Hull on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Sutton [on Hull]
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.
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen Horncastle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen Horncastle · 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.
Location
53.7766°N, -0.3078°W · Holderness [Middle Hundred] hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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