Sutton on the Forest in the Domesday Book (1086)
Sutton on the Forest is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, 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 Sutton 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 Sutton on the Forest.
Listed Buildings Near Sutton on the Forest
Historic England records 17 listed buildings within about a mile of Sutton on the Forest. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Sutton Park - 0.31 km
Grade II
- School Cottage - 0.21 km
- Fir Tree Farmhouse - 0.21 km
- Forrester’s Cottage - 0.23 km
- Blue Stone Cottage - 0.23 km
- Dunelm Cottage - 0.24 km
- The Orchard - 0.27 km
- Former Stables to Sutton Park Including Numbers 1 and 2 the Bungalow - 0.28 km
- Milepost in Front of Laughton House - 0.29 km
- Ice House at Sutton Park Approximately 75 Metres to North West of House - 0.38 km
- Railings to Front of Laurence House - 0.39 km
- Laurence House - 0.4 km
- Church of All Hallows - 0.4 km
- Wall to Kitchen Garden at Sutton Park - 0.41 km
- Sterne House - 0.47 km
- Chestnut House and Attached Railings - 0.49 km
- Newton House Farmhouse - 0.5 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Sutton on the Forest
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Sutton on the Forest:
- Icehouse 75m north west of Sutton Hall - 0.38 km
Sutton on the Forest Today
Today Sutton on the Forest lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 836 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 Sutton-on-the-Forest on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Thorpe Hill - 1.0 km E
- Murton Farm - 2.0 km E
- Caldenesche - 2.2 km NW
- Huby - 2.2 km NW
- Moxby Hall - 2.2 km NE
- Stillington - 3.0 km N
Heritage Around Sutton [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.
© Pauline E · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Martin Dawes · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · 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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