The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Swinton, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Swinton at 10 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Swinton supported a recorded population of 8 villagers, 10 smallholders, working 8 ploughs between them.

The survey records Swinton’s value at 2.5 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Swinton (1086)

Meadow: 10 acres

Other Settlements in Maneshou

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 7 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

Lime Kiln Farmhouse - 0.32 km
Church of St Helen - 0.54 km
Milepost Approximately 60 Metres East of East Street - 0.55 km
Old Schoolhouse - 0.58 km
The Old Vicarage - 0.6 km
Milepost Approximately 1 Metre West of the Stable Range to Station Farm - 0.66 km
Oak Farmhouse - 1.21 km

Swinton Today

Today Swinton lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 573 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 Swinton on Wikipedia .