West Rounton in the Domesday Book (1086)
West Rounton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Allerton
- Ainderby [Steeple]
- Appleton [Wiske]
- Arncliffe [Hall]
- Birkby
- Borrowby
- Brompton
- Cowesby
- Crosby [Grange]
- Dale [Town]
- Deighton
- Ellerbeck
- Foxton
- Girsby
- Hawnby
The Meaning of the Name
The name West Rounton 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 Rounton.
Listed Buildings Near West Rounton
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of West Rounton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Oswald - 0.22 km
- Stable Cottage, Engine House, Corner Cottage and Coachmans Cottage - 1.17 km
Grade II
- West Rounton Bridge - 0.26 km
- The Horse Shoe Inn - 0.27 km
- Church of St Lawrence - 0.58 km
- East Rounton Bridge Over River Wiske - 0.63 km
- The Old School - 0.64 km
- Village Hall - 0.64 km
- Rounton House - 0.72 km
- West Lodge - 1.13 km
- The Motor House and Fowl House - 1.15 km
- Home Farm Home Farmhouse - 1.2 km
West Rounton Today
Today West Rounton lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 191 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 West Rounton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Irby Manor - 0.0 km N
- East Rounton - 1.0 km E
- Welbury - 2.2 km SW
- Appleton Wiske - 3.2 km W
- Middleton - 3.2 km W
- Deighton - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around [West] Rounton
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.
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dave Dunford · 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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