Thornton Fields in the Domesday Book (1086)

Thornton Fields appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

• Acklam
• Airy [Holme]
• Aislaby
• Arnodestorp
• Baldebi
• Barnaby
• Barwick
• Battersby
• Bergolbi
• Berguluesbi
• Blaten [Carr]
• Borrowby
• Breck
• Brotton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Thornton Fields is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent thorn-bushes. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the thorn-bushes farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Thornton Fields.

Listed Buildings Near Thornton Fields

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Thornton Fields. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Tocketts Mill - 1.15 km

Grade II

• Thornton Fields Farmhouse - 0.39 km
• Farm Cottage, Adjoining North East Side of Thornton Fields Farmhouse - 0.43 km
• Marker Stone, Approximately 190 Metres North East of Carling Howe Farmhouse - 0.69 km
• Tocketts House (The Kennels) and Extension - 0.77 km
• Gatepiers, to North East of Dunsdale Lodge - 0.94 km
• Dunsdale Lodge - 0.94 km
• Dunsdale Farmhouse and Adjoining Wings - 0.94 km
• Boundary Wall and Gatepiers to West of Dunsdale Farmhouse - 0.96 km
• Mill House Adjoining East Side of Tocketts Mill - 1.16 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Tocketts Farm - 1.0 km S
• Guisborough - 2.0 km S
• Middleton - 2.0 km S
• Upleatham - 2.2 km NE
• Rawcliff Banks - 2.8 km SE
• Wilton - 3.2 km W