The settlement of Thornton le Street is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Allerton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Thornton le Street 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 Street.

Listed Buildings Near Thornton le Street

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Thornton le Street. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Leonard - 0.31 km
Brawith Hall - 0.98 km

Grade II

Ford Cottage and Chesters - 0.25 km
Table Tomb Approximately 8 Metres to South of Nave of Church of St Leonard - 0.31 km
Table Tomb Approximately 10 Metres to South of West End of Church of St Leonard - 0.32 km
Millhouse and Attached Watermill - 0.33 km
The Old Hall - 0.59 km
East Lodge North and East Lodge South to Thornton Stud - 0.59 km
Brawith Bridge - 0.72 km
Brawith Bridge - 0.72 km
Stable Block at Brawith Hall to North West of House - 1.01 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Thornton le Street

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

Medieval settlement at Thornton-le-Street - 0.4 km

Thornton le Street Today

Today Thornton le Street lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 99 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-Street on Wikipedia .