Garton

Parish/Community: East Garton
Unitary Authority: East Riding of Yorkshire
Region: Yorkshire and The Humber

Category: Populated Place
Type: Other Settlement

Latitude/Longitude: 53°48'1"N 0°4'50"W
Eastings/Northings: 526500, 435500
OS Grid: TA265355
Mapcode Local: GBR WSWH.9D
Mapcode Global: WHHGM.QQRW

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Garton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Garton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Garton, par., East-Riding Yorkshire, 7 miles NE. of Hedon, 3159 ac. (including part of Ross par.), pop. 190; contains the township of Garton with Grimston (partly in Ross par.), 1823 ac., pop. 157.

Garton in the Domesday Book

A village in Holderness [Middle Hundred] hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Morcar
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Drogo of la Beuvrière
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Drogo of la Beuvrière; Baldwin of Flanders (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 23 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £32 in 1066; £8 in 1086
- Households: 13 villagers; 4 smallholders; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 3 men's ploughs (23 plough lands)
- Meadow: 160 acres
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Garton, East Riding of Yorkshire

Garton is a settlement in East Riding of Yorkshire

Garton in historic gazetteers

Garton in the Domesday Book