The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Weeton, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Weeton 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 Weeton.

Listed Buildings Near Weeton

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Weeton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Knowsley Farmhouse - 0.21 km
Cruck Barn - 0.29 km
Church of St Michael - 0.39 km

Weeton Today

Today Weeton lies within the administrative area of Weeton-with-Preese.

Read more about modern Weeton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Mythop - 2.0 km W
Greenhalgh - 2.2 km NE
Preese Hall - 2.2 km NW
Westby - 3.0 km S
Ribby - 3.6 km SE
Great and Little Marton - 4.0 km W

Heritage Around Weeton

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.

Graveyard of St Anne's RC Church, Westby Mills (2007)
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Parish Church of St Michaels, Weeton, Graveyard (2009)
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Church of St Anne - Westby Mills (2005)
© Paul Twambley · 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.

Weeton in the Domesday Book (1086)