West Melton in the Domesday Book (1086)

West Melton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

• Adwick [le Street]
• Adwick [upon Dearne]
• Armthorpe
• Aston
• Attercliffe
• Auckley
• Aughton [Hall]
• Austerfield
• Balby
• Barnbrough
• Barnby [Dun]
• Bentley
• Bilham [House]
• Billingley

The Meaning of the Name

The name West Melton 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 Melton.

Listed Buildings Near West Melton

Historic England records 21 listed buildings within about a mile of West Melton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of All Saints - 0.87 km

Grade II

• Wet Moor Bridge - 0.43 km
• United Reformed Church - 0.54 km
• 131-133, Melton High Street - 0.54 km
• Barn to the north of Nos 143 and 145, Melton High Street - 0.55 km
• Highfield Farm - 0.63 km
• Beech House, 214 High Street, West Melton - 0.64 km
• Christ Church - 0.7 km
• Dovecote and Cowhouse Approximately 15 Metres to North West of Brook Farmhouse - 0.8 km
• Old Parish Lock Up - 0.82 km
• Brook Farmhouse - 0.83 km
• Thornhill Farmhouse - 0.83 km
• School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School - 0.89 km
• Town Hall - 0.91 km
• Newhill Grange Farmhouse - 0.99 km
• 25 and 27, Church Street - 1.04 km
• Brampton Hall - 1.06 km
• Church House - 1.14 km
• 2,2A,2b,2c,4a,4b and 4C, High Street - 1.16 km
• 34, Sandygate - 1.24 km
• Cart Shed Approximately 15 Metres to Rear of Number 22 - 1.24 km

West Melton Today

Today West Melton lies within the administrative area of Rotherham, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,007 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 Melton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Brampton Bierlow - 1.0 km W
• Eldeberge - 1.0 km W
• Wath upon Dearne - 1.4 km SE
• Newhill - 2.2 km SE
• Bolton upon Dearne - 3.2 km E
• Billingley - 3.2 km N