Welton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Welton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Welton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Welton

• Bentley
• Brantingham
• Brantingham [Thorpe]
• Cottingham
• Ellerker
• Elloughton
• Lund
• Pillwoods [Farm]
• Risby
• Skidby
• Toschetorp
• Walkington
• Wauldby
• [Little] Weighton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Welton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent a spring. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the a spring farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Welton.

Listed Buildings Near Welton

Historic England records 31 listed buildings within about a mile of Welton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Welton Grange - 0.28 km
• Church of St Helen - 0.33 km

Grade II

• Welton Manor - 0.18 km
• Welton Hill - 0.18 km
• Gates and Gate Piers to Welton Hill - 0.22 km
• Barn House - 0.26 km
• Green Dragon Public House - 0.26 km
• Memorial Hall - 0.27 km
• 30 and 32, Cowgate - 0.28 km
• The Fountain and Basin - 0.28 km
• Pair of Cottages About 15 Metres East of Green Dragon Public House - 0.29 km
• Hawthorne House - 0.29 km
• 4, the Green - 0.3 km
• 9, the Green - 0.31 km
• Shaws House - 0.34 km
• Welton Hall - 0.34 km
• 2, Church Street - 0.35 km
• 14 and 16, Church Street - 0.36 km
• Gates and Gate Piers to Welton Hall - 0.37 km
• The Cottage - 0.39 km
• Creyke Lodge - 0.39 km
• 3, Ladywellgate - 0.41 km
• Welton Garth - 0.41 km
• Welton Lodge - 0.41 km

…and 7 more listed structures in the area.

Welton Today

Today Welton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,831 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 Welton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Elloughton - 1.4 km NW
• Wauldby - 2.2 km NE
• Brantingham - 2.2 km NW
• Brantingham Thorpe - 2.2 km NW
• Toschetorp - 2.2 km NW
• North Ferriby - 3.2 km E