The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Swinton, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

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 8 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

Remains of Chapel of St Mary Magdalene Situated Immediately to North of Church of St Margaret - 0.39 km
Church of St Margaret - 0.4 km
Base of Cross Approximately 1 Metre to South of Tower of Church of St Margaret - 0.42 km
15, Fitzwilliam Street - 0.47 km
Hawthorne Farmhouse - 0.49 km
Swinton Hall - 0.5 km
Swinton House - 0.57 km
Hattersley Building - 0.78 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Swinton

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

Roman Ridge: section 150yds (140m) long W of Bow Brown Wood - 0.64 km

Swinton Today

Today Swinton lies within the administrative area of Rotherham, and the settlement recorded a population of 15,559 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 .