Swetton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The name Swetton 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 Swetton.

Listed Buildings Near Swetton

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Swetton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

The Grange - 0.74 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Swetton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Swetton:

Fortress Dyke camp - 0.77 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Carlesmoor - 1.0 km E
Hawcoat - 2.2 km SE
Kex Moor - 2.8 km NE
Bramley Grange - 3.6 km NE
Laverton - 4.0 km E
Knaresford - 5.0 km SE

Heritage Around Swetton

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.

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Swetton in the Domesday Book (1086)