# Catterton

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This article is about the hamlet in Yorkshire. For the private equity firm, see [Catterton Partners](/source/Catterton_Partners).

**Catterton** is a hamlet and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) in the county of [North Yorkshire](/source/North_Yorkshire), England. At the 2011 Census the population was less than 100. The population is included in the civil parish of [Healaugh, Tadcaster](/source/Healaugh,_Tadcaster).

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the [Selby District](/source/Selby_District), it is now administered by the unitary [North Yorkshire Council](/source/North_Yorkshire_Council).

## Etymology

The first part of the name *Catterton* is the [Brittonic](/source/Common_Brittonic) *cadeir*, "chair, throne".[1] This is suffixed with the [Old English](/source/Old_English) *-tun*, "a farm".[1] [Chadderton](/source/Chadderton) and [Chatterton](/source/Chatterton,_Lancashire) in Lancashire have the same origins.[1]

## History

Catterton is the location of one moated site which is a [scheduled monument](/source/Scheduled_monument) under the [Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979](/source/Ancient_Monuments_and_Archaeological_Areas_Act_1979). Most such sites were built between 1250 and 1350, though construction continued throughout the [medieval period](/source/England_in_the_Middle_Ages).[2]

In the 17th century, the inhabitants of Catterton came into conflict with people from the neighbouring village of [Bilbrough](/source/Bilbrough) over a tract of [unenclosed](/source/Enclosure) [moorland](/source/Moorland) between the two settlements. A meeting between the two sides organised by the intervention of prominent Yorkshire figures including [Robert Fairfax](/source/Robert_Fairfax_(rear-admiral)) devolved into violence. In 1723, the two sides resolved their dispute by digging a ditch from Thwaites Lane to Escars to divide the land; the ditch still existed by 1900.[3]

## References

1. James, Alan. ["A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170813011121/http://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary.pdf). *SPNS - The Brittonic Language in the Old North*. Archived from [the original](http://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary.pdf) on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2018.

1. [*The Old Kingdom of Elmet: York and the Ainsty District*](https://archive.org/stream/oldkingdomofelme00boggrich/oldkingdomofelme00boggrich_djvu.txt#page/376/mode/2up). London: John Heywood. 1900. p. 376.

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