West Newton in the Domesday Book (1086)
West Newton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]
- Aldbrough
- Benningholme [Hall]
- Bewick [Hall]
- Bilton
- Burton [Constable]
- Burton [Pidsea]
- Conis[ton]
- Danthorpe
- Dowthorpe [Hall]
- Drypool
- Ellerby
- Elstronwick
- Eske
- Etherdwick
The Meaning of the Name
The name West Newton 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 the new. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the new farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as West Newton.
Listed Buildings Near West Newton
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of West Newton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Burton Constable Hall - 1.01 km
- Stables and Carriage House Approximately 20 Metres to South-east of Burton Constable Hall - 1.05 km
Grade II*
Grade II
- Wood House - 0.65 km
- Mount Pleasant Farmhouse - 0.68 km
- Gardeners Cottage Approximately 25 Metres to South-east of Burton Constable Hall - 1.04 km
- Ha-ha Approximately 20 Metres to South of Burton Constable Hall - 1.12 km
- Tower House - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near West Newton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of West Newton:
West Newton Today
Today West Newton lies within the administrative area of Burton Constable.
Read more about modern West Newton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Fosham - 1.4 km NE
- Burton Constable - 1.4 km SW
- West Carlton - 2.2 km NE
- Marton - 2.2 km NW
- Tansterne - 3.0 km E
- Ellerby - 3.0 km W
Heritage Around [West] Newton
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.
© Lynne Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andy Beecroft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Glazzard · 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.
Location
53.8198°N, -0.1845°W · Holderness [Middle Hundred] hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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