Winton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Winton, 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 Winton 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 Winton.

Listed Buildings Near Winton

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Winton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Winton House - 0.63 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Winton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Winton:

• Round barrow on Rabbit Hill, 120m north of High Park House - 0.43 km
• Winton medieval settlement including fishponds and field system immediately south of Winton House - 0.54 km
• Sigston Castle: an enclosure castle 400m north of Kirby Sigston church - 1.32 km
• Harlsey Castle - 1.55 km

Winton Today

Today Winton lies within the administrative area of Winton, Stank and Hallikeld.

Read more about modern Winton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Foxton - 1.0 km E
• Ellerbeck - 2.0 km E
• West Harlsey - 2.0 km N
• Kirby Sigston - 2.0 km S
• Sowerby under Cotcliffe - 3.0 km S
• Newsham Grange - 3.2 km W