The settlement of Walton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Agbrigg

The Meaning of the Name

The name Walton 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 Walton.

Listed Buildings Near Walton

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

Grade II

Gate piers and flanking walls in front of Elmwood House and at entrance to farm - 0.45 km
Elmwood House - 0.48 km
Barn and attached outbuildings approximately 15 metres south-west of Elmwood House - 0.5 km
Cottages Attached to North of Number 192 - 0.53 km
Walton House - 0.65 km
Sandal Grange Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Buildings - 0.8 km
Overtown Grange Farmhouse - 0.93 km
Barnsley Canal Walton Hall Canal Bridge - 1.07 km
Rose Farmhouse - 1.08 km
Barn and Attached Outbuildings at Rose Farmhouse - 1.09 km
Walton Common Farmhouse - 1.1 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Walton

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

Bridge and medieval gateway at Walton Hall - 1.4 km

Walton Today

Today Walton lies within the administrative area of Wakefield, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,263 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 Walton on Wikipedia .