Saxton

Built-Up Area: Saxton
Parish/Community: Saxton with Scarthingwell
District/Borough: Selby
County: North Yorkshire
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 53°49'31"N 1°16'41"W
Eastings/Northings: 447615, 436809
OS Grid: SE476368
Mapcode Local: GBR MSJ6.2F
Mapcode Global: WHDBN.B3LQ

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

Saxton in historic gazetteers

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

Saxton, par., township, and vil., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - par., 3699 ac., pop. 506; township (Saxton with Scarthingwell), 2719 ac., pop. 322; vil., 4 miles S. of Tadcaster; P.O.

Saxton in the Domesday Book

A village in Barkston hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Thanes, three
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Ilbert of Lacy
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ilbert of Lacy
- Taxable Value: 15 ¹⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £7 in 1066; £5 in 1086
- Households: 7 villagers; 7 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 6 men's ploughs (12 plough lands)
- Meadow: 10 acres
- Churches: 1.75
- Mills: 2, value 10 shillings

British Place Names

Saxton, North Yorkshire

Saxton is a village in North Yorkshire

Saxton in historic gazetteers

Saxton in the Domesday Book