Watton, East Riding of Yorkshire

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Watton is a village in East Riding of Yorkshire

Other current and historical names

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

Watton in historic gazetteers

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

Watton, par. and vil., East-Riding Yorkshire - par., 4745 ac., pop. 319; vil., 5½ miles S. of Driffield; has remains of Watton Abbey, founded in 1149 and rebuilt in the reign of Henry VII.

Watton in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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