Ambaston in the Domesday Book (1086)
Ambaston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Ambaston at 5 carucates of taxable land.
The survey records Ambaston’s value at 1 shilling in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
Other Settlements in Litchurch
- Allestree
- Alvaston
- Arleston
- Aston [-on-Trent]
- Barrow [-upon-Trent]
- Bearwardcote
- Boulton
- Burnaston
- Chellaston
- Cottons
- Dalbury
- Egginton
- Elvaston
- Etwall
The Meaning of the Name
The name Ambaston 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 Ambaston.
Listed Buildings Near Ambaston
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Ambaston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Ambaston Grange Farmhouse - 1.0 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Ambaston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Ambaston:
Ambaston Today
Today Ambaston lies within the administrative area of Elvaston.
Read more about modern Ambaston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Ambaston
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Jerry Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris J Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Tom Wosik · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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