Upton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Upton 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 Upton.

Listed Buildings Near Upton

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Upton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Dringhoe Hall - 0.58 km

Upton Today

Today Upton lies within the administrative area of Skipsea.

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Dringhoe - 1.4 km NE
Beeford - 2.0 km W
Dunnington - 2.2 km SE
Ulrome - 2.8 km NE
Lissett - 4.0 km N
Nunkeeling - 4.0 km S

Heritage Around Upton

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.

Skipsea Castle and Skipsea village (1979)
© Stanley Howe · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Ruined Barn at field edge (2009)
© Martin Dawes · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

The Methodist Chapel. Ulrome, East Yorks. (2008)
© Peter Church · 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.

Upton in the Domesday Book (1086)