Atlow in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Atlow, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.
At the time of the survey, Atlow supported a recorded population of 2 villagers, 8 smallholders, working 2 ploughs between them.
The survey records Atlow’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 Hamston
- Alsop [-en-le-Dale]
- Ashbourne
- Ballidon
- Bonsall
- Bradbourne
- Brassington
- Broadlowash
- Callow
- Carsington
- Cowley
- Cromford
- Elton
- Hanson [Grange]
- Hartington
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Atlow is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Atlow.
Listed Buildings Near Atlow
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Atlow. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Atlow Moat Farmhouse - 0.13 km
- Atlow Moat Farmhouse Outbuildings - 0.17 km
- Church of St Phillip and St James - 0.5 km
- Upper Hallfields Farmhouse - 0.7 km
- The Old Parsonage - 0.77 km
- Barn at Woodhead Farm - 0.82 km
- Gate Piers at Woodhead Farm - 0.83 km
- Woodhead Farm - 0.83 km
- Agnes Meadow Farm - 1.14 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Atlow
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Atlow:
Atlow Today
Today Atlow lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 121 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Atlow on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Atlow
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.
© Peter Barr · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Poyser · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · 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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