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 Maneshou in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Maneshou
- Amotherby
- Ampleforth
- Appleton [le Street]
- Beadlam
- Brawby
- Broughton
- Cawton
- Coulton
- Fadmoor
- Fryton
- Gillamoor
- Gilling [East]
- Griff [Farm]
- Grimston
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 10 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
- Sundial Approximately 50 Metres South East of Welburn Hall - 0.42 km
- Welburn Hall - 0.45 km
- Garden Pavilion Approximately 50 Metres to South West of Welburn Hall - 0.46 km
- Stable Block Approximately 100 Metres North West of Welburn Hall - 0.56 km
- Lodge Approximately 100 Metres North West of Welburn Hall - 0.61 km
- Lodge Approximately 400 Metres North of Welburn Hall - 0.74 km
- Wall, Gate Piers and Gates at Lodge Approximately 400 Metres to North of Welburn Hall - 0.75 km
- Howkeld Mill - 0.76 km
- Tilehouse Bridge - 0.78 km
- Howkeld Mill - 0.79 km
Walton Today
Today Walton lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 80 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 Welburn on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Welburn - 0.0 km N
- Great Edstone - 2.0 km E
- Wombleton - 2.2 km SW
- Kirby Moorside - 2.2 km NE
- Hoveton - 2.2 km NW
- Little Edstone - 3.0 km E
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.
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · 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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