Sutton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Sutton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Osgodcross
- Arksey
- Badsworth
- Beal
- Burgh[wallis]
- Campsall
- Darrington
- Featherstone
- Ferry [Fryston]
- Hamphall [Stubbs]
- Hensall
- Hessle
- Kellington
- Knottingley
- Minsthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Sutton 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.
Listed Buildings Near Sutton
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Sutton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Vine Farmhouse - 0.4 km
- Stable With Dovecote Attached to East End of Sutton Farmhouse - 0.45 km
- Outbuilding approximately 50 metres to north east of Vine Cottage - 1.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Sutton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Sutton:
- Earthworks on Sutton Common - 0.9 km
- Sutton Common bowl barrow - 1.3 km
Sutton Today
Today Sutton lies within the administrative area of Norton.
Read more about modern Sutton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Sutton
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
© Richard Croft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Christine Johnstone · 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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