Wilton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Wilton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Dic
- Aislaby
- Allerston
- Appleton [le Moors]
- Aschelesmersc
- Aschilesmares
- Barton [le Street]
- Baschebi
- Baschesbi
- Brompton
- Burniston
- Burton [Dale]
- Cawthorn
- Cayton
- Chigogemers
The Meaning of the Name
The name Wilton 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 Wilton.
Listed Buildings Near Wilton
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Wilton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of Saint John - 1.29 km
Grade II
- Church of St George (Church of England) - 0.49 km
- Prospect Farmhouse - 0.82 km
- Sawmill Cottage - 1.18 km
- Cornmill - 1.25 km
- Mill Cottage - 1.26 km
- Allerston Manor - 1.27 km
- Rhodelands - 1.3 km
- Low Farmhouse and Attached Cottage - 1.3 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Wilton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Wilton:
- Wilton Hall moated site 250m south of Manor Farm - 0.44 km
- Allerston medieval manorial centre, dovecotes and 17th century gunpowder works - 1.34 km
Wilton Today
Today Wilton lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 147 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 Wilton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Wilton
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.
© Colin Grice · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · 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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