West Heslerton in the Domesday Book (1086)
West Heslerton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Toreshou in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Toreshou
- Cottam
- Cowlam
- Croom [House]
- Helperthorpe
- Kirby [Grindalythe]
- Knapton
- Newton
- Sherburn
- Sledmere
- Thirkleby [Manor]
- Turodebi
- Ulchiltorp
- Weaverthorpe
- [East and West] Lutton
The Meaning of the Name
The name West Heslerton 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 West Heslerton.
Listed Buildings Near West Heslerton
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of West Heslerton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Wold Cottage - 0.59 km
- Church of All Saints - 0.6 km
- Coach-house and Yard Wall Attached to the Old Rectory - 0.64 km
- Old Rectory - 0.65 km
- Dovecote Attached to North-west Corner of Farmbuildings Approximately 20 Metres North-west of Heslerton Hall - 0.74 km
- Manor House Farmhouse - 0.78 km
Scheduled Monuments Near West Heslerton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of West Heslerton:
- Heslerton Brow barrow group: a bowl barrow 250m north-west of Wold Barn - 0.55 km
- Heslerton Brow barrow group: a bowl barrow 230m north-east of Wold Barn - 0.77 km
- Heslerton Brow barrow group: three bowl barrows 300m north-east of Wold Barn - 0.85 km
- Round barrow on Knapton Brow - 1.58 km
West Heslerton Today
Today West Heslerton lies within the administrative area of Heslerton, and the settlement recorded a population of 409 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern West Heslerton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- East Heslerton - 1.4 km NE
- Knapton - 3.0 km W
- Wintringham - 3.6 km SW
- Sherburn - 4.1 km E
- Newton - 4.2 km SW
- Scampston - 5.0 km W
Heritage Around [West] Heslerton
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.
© Martin Dawes · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Martin Dawes · 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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