Thornton Rust appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Thornton Rust 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 Rust.

Listed Buildings Near Thornton Rust

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

Grade II

Havenhurst - 0.38 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk Oppposite Manor Farm House - 0.4 km
East End Cottage and Attached Outbuildings - 0.41 km
Yoredale - 0.42 km
Rose Cottage - 0.43 km
Manor Farmhouse - 0.44 km
Post Office - 0.45 km
Fosse Cottage - 0.46 km
Thornton Hall - 0.48 km
Manor House - 0.56 km
Mile Stone Approximately 100 Metres West of Wauley Beck - 1.06 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Thornton Rust

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

Castle Dykes Henge - 1.35 km

Thornton Rust Today

Today Thornton Rust lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 111 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 Rust on Wikipedia .