Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Yarlestre
- Arden [Hall]
- Asenby
- Bagby
- Baxby
- Bergebi
- Berghebi
- Bernebi
- Boltby
- Breckenbrough
- Carlton [Husthwaite]
- Carlton [Miniott]
- Catton
- Coxwold
- Crakehill
The Meaning of the Name
The name Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe 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 under Whitestone Cliffe.
Listed Buildings Near Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Seven Stars - 0.05 km
- Sutton Under Whitestonecliff Methodist Church - 0.17 km
- Sutton Post Office and Stores - 0.18 km
- Garden House Approximately 50 Metres to South East of Sutton Hall - 0.29 km
- Section of Garden Wall With Garden House Approximately 65 Metres to North East of Sutton Hall - 0.29 km
- Sutton Hall - 0.34 km
- Milepost Approximately 170 Metres to East of Drive to Whitestone Gardens - 0.47 km
- Paper Mill Cottage - 0.51 km
- Sutton Bridge - 0.53 km
- Low Cleaves - 1.18 km
Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe Today
Today Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 286 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-under-Whitestonecliffe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Marderby Hall - 2.2 km NW
- Osgoodby Hall - 2.2 km SE
- Bagby - 2.8 km SW
- Felixkirk - 2.8 km NW
- Ravensthorpe Manor - 3.2 km N
- Boltby - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Sutton [under Whitestone Cliffe]
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.
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andy Beecroft · 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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