Winkton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Winkton at 4.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Winkton supported a recorded population of 19 villagers, 9 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 21 ploughs between them.

The survey records Winkton’s value at 23 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Winkton (1086)

Mills: 2 mills (valued at 4d)
Pigs: 14
Horses (cobs): 1
Meadow: 24 acres
Woodland: 1 * 0.5 leagues

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Winkton 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 Winkton.

Listed Buildings Near Winkton

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Winkton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I