Walton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Walton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Ainsty
- Acaster [Malbis]
- Acaster [Selby]
- Acomb
- Appleton [Roebuck]
- Askham [Bryan]
- Askham [Richard]
- Bickerton
- Bilbrough
- Bilton
- Bishopthorpe
- Bithen
- Bolton [Percy]
- Catterton
- Colton
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 9 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*
- Church of St Peter - 0.6 km
Grade II
- Walton Old Hall - 0.41 km
- Croft Holdings - 0.45 km
- The Old Vicarage - 0.54 km
- Railway Bridge Approximately 940 Metres South East of Walton Gates - 1.15 km
- Engine Shed at Thorp Arch Station - 1.19 km
- Thorp Arch Station House - 1.21 km
- Light Anti-Aircraft gun emplacement for the former Thorp Arch Royal Ordnance Factory - 1.24 km
- Railway Bridge Approximately 525 Metres South East of Walton Gates - 1.29 km
Walton Today
Today Walton lies within the administrative area of Leeds, and the settlement recorded a population of 208 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 .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Thorp Arch - 1.4 km SW
- Wighill Park - 2.2 km NE
- Oglethorpe Hall - 3.0 km S
- Wighill - 3.2 km E
- Bickerton - 3.2 km N
- Toulston - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around Walton
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.
© Betty Longbottom · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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