The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Upper Hopton, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Upper Hopton at 4 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Upper Hopton supported a recorded population of 3 slaves, working 1 plough between them.

The survey records Upper Hopton’s value at 2.5 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Upper Hopton (1086)

Meadow: 24 acres
Woodland: 6 acres

Other Settlements in Agbrigg

The Meaning of the Name

The name Upper Hopton 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 Upper Hopton.

Listed Buildings Near Upper Hopton

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Upper Hopton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*