Weeton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Weeton, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aismunderby
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
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 4 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*
- Church of St Barnabas - 0.22 km
Grade II
- The Old Vicarage, With Courtyard Containing Stables and Coach House - 0.24 km
- Hollins Farm - 0.39 km
- Old Hall and Attached Outbuilding - 0.45 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Weeton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Weeton:
Weeton Today
Today Weeton lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 998 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 Weeton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Dunkeswick - 2.0 km E
- Castley - 2.2 km SW
- Arthington - 2.2 km SW
- Weardley - 2.2 km SE
- Rigton - 3.0 km N
- Burden Head - 3.2 km S
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.
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris Heaton · 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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