Swinton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Swinton, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Agglethorpe
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Swinton 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 Swinton.
Listed Buildings Near Swinton
Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Swinton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Swinton Castle - 0.48 km
Grade II
- Rose Cottage - 0.21 km
- Swinton Grange Barn - 0.23 km
- Lower Swinton - 0.24 km
- Gateway and Lodges (Approximately 100 Metres to East of Swinton Castle) - 0.33 km
- Stables (Approximately 20 Metres to North of Swinton Castle) - 0.48 km
- High House - 0.48 km
- Tudor (Approximately 10 Metres to South East of Swinton Castle) - 0.5 km
- Home Farmhouse - 0.54 km
- High Burn Bridge - 0.69 km
- 2 Stone Coffins (Approximately 300 Metres to West of Swinton Castle) - 1.0 km
- Coffin Lake Bridge (Approximately 320 Metres to West of Swinton Castle) - 1.04 km
- Park Farmhouse - 1.05 km
- Low Burn Bridge - 1.1 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Swinton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Swinton:
- Camp and tumulus on Roomer Common - 1.12 km
- Market cross in Masham - 1.54 km
- Cross shaft in St Mary’s churchyard - 1.58 km
Swinton Today
Today Swinton lies within the administrative area of Swinton with Warthermarske, and the settlement recorded a population of 200 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 Swinton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Twislebrook - 0.0 km N
- Masham - 1.4 km NE
- Ilton - 2.2 km SW
- Fearby - 2.8 km NW
- High Burton - 3.2 km N
- Bramley Grange - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around Swinton
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.
© Betty Longbottom · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Phil Catterall · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Uncredited · 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
54.2106°N, -1.6703°W · Land of Count Alan 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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