Walkington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Welton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Welton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Walkington 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 Walkington.

Listed Buildings Near Walkington

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Walkington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of All Hallows - 0.69 km

Grade II

Manorhouse - 0.21 km
Northgate House - 0.25 km
34 and 36 - 0.25 km
18, West End - 0.41 km
4, East End - 0.43 km
The Old Rectory - 0.45 km
Middle Farmhouse - 0.49 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Walkington

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

Beverley sanctuary limit stone, Walkington cross - 0.78 km

Walkington Today

Today Walkington lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,337 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 Walkington on Wikipedia .