Thornton le Clay in the Domesday Book (1086)
Thornton le Clay appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Bulford
- Aldwark
- Alne
- Barnby [House]
- Barton [le Willows]
- Beningbrough
- Bossall
- Brafferton
- Brandsby
- Bulmer
- Buttercrambe
- Carlton [Farm]
- Claxton
- Coneysthorpe
- Corburn
The Meaning of the Name
The name Thornton le Clay 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 le Clay.
Listed Buildings Near Thornton le Clay
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Thornton le Clay. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Foston Rectory - 0.63 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Thornton le Clay
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Thornton le Clay:
Thornton le Clay Today
Today Thornton le Clay lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 210 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 Thornton-le-Clay on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Foston - 1.0 km E
- East Lilling - 2.2 km SW
- Bulmer - 2.2 km NE
- Stittenham - 2.2 km NW
- Sheriff Hutton - 3.2 km W
- Flaxton - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around Thornton [le Clay]
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.
© Phil Catterall · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · 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.
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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