Warter in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Warter, entered under the hundred of Warter in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Warter
- Grimthorpe [Manor]
- Hawold
- Heslington
- Huggate
- Kilnwick [Percy]
- Langwith [Lodge]
- Meltonby
- Millington
- Naburn
- Wetwang
- Yapham
- [Great] Givendale
- [Little] Givendale
- [North] Dalton
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Warter is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Warter.
Listed Buildings Near Warter
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Warter. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Coatgares Farmhouse (The Manor House) - 0.28 km
- 1-4, Cross Green - 0.32 km
- Row of 3 Cottages Opposite Warter School - 0.37 km
- Statue and Tomb 6 Metres North of St James Church - 0.37 km
- Ornamental Cottages - 0.38 km
- Statue and Tomb 15 Metres North of St James Church - 0.38 km
- Church of Saint James - 0.39 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Warter
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Warter:
- Site of Warter Augustinian Priory - 0.39 km
Warter Today
Today Warter lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 133 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 Warter on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Millington - 3.2 km W
- Nunburnholme - 3.6 km SW
- Swinden - 4.0 km N
- Kilnwick Percy - 4.1 km W
- Cleaving Grange - 4.1 km S
- Kipling Cotes - 5.0 km SE
Heritage Around Warter
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.
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© JThomas · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© 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.
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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