Arleston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Arleston at 16.7 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Arleston supported a recorded population of 20 villagers, 3 smallholders, working 11 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Arleston was worth 7 shillings, up from 4 shillings before the Conquest – one of the few settlements in the area to hold its value through the upheaval.

Resources Recorded at Arleston (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 8d)
Fisheries: 5
Woodland: 7 * 3 furlongs

Other Settlements in Litchurch

The Meaning of the Name

The name Arleston 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 Arleston.

Listed Buildings Near Arleston

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Arleston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Wilfrid - 1.28 km

Grade II

Trent and Mersey Canal Deep Dale Bridge Number 17 at Sk 3485 2923 - 0.36 km
The Grange - 0.89 km
Arleston House Farmhouse - 0.92 km
Littlecroft - 1.05 km
Village School - 1.09 km
War Memorial at Twyford Road, Barrow-upon-Trent - 1.11 km
2-18 Twyford Road - 1.14 km
Lodge Cottage - 1.18 km
St Wilfrids - 1.22 km
Methodist Church - 1.26 km

Arleston Today

Today Arleston lies within the administrative area of Barrow upon Trent, and the settlement recorded a population of 46 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Arleston on Wikipedia .