Barrow -upon-Trent in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Barrow -upon-Trent is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Litchurch
- Allestree
- Alvaston
- Ambaston
- Arleston
- Aston [-on-Trent]
- Bearwardcote
- Boulton
- Burnaston
- Chellaston
- Cottons
- Dalbury
- Egginton
- Elvaston
- Etwall
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Barrow -upon-Trent 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 Barrow -upon-Trent.
Listed Buildings Near Barrow -upon-Trent
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Barrow -upon-Trent. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Wilfrid - 0.32 km
Grade II
- Methodist Church - 0.17 km
- The Walnuts - 0.22 km
- Barrow Hall Stables - 0.23 km
- Lodge Cottage - 0.27 km
- 2-18 Twyford Road - 0.31 km
- St Wilfrids - 0.37 km
- War Memorial at Twyford Road, Barrow-upon-Trent - 0.38 km
- Village School - 0.4 km
- Littlecroft - 0.42 km
- The Grange - 0.72 km
- Trent and Mersey Canal Deep Dale Bridge Number 17 at Sk 3485 2923 - 1.06 km
- Trent and Mersey Canal Lowes Bridge - 1.07 km
- Lowes Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings - 1.22 km
- Stable Block to North of Crewe and Harpur Arms - 1.26 km
- Crewe and Harpur Arms - 1.27 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Barrow -upon-Trent
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Barrow -upon-Trent:
- Swarkestone Bridge - 1.44 km
- Swarkestone Lows round barrow cemetery and part of an aggregate field system 300m north west of The Lowes Farm - 1.51 km
Barrow -upon-Trent Today
Today Barrow -upon-Trent lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 550 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 Barrow upon Trent on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Swarkestone - 1.0 km E
- Ingleby - 1.4 km SW
- Arleston - 1.4 km NW
- Stanton -by-Bridge - 2.2 km SE
- Foremark - 2.8 km SW
- Twyford - 3.0 km W
Heritage Around Barrow [-upon-Trent]
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.
© Phil Myott · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Shone · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Jerry Evans · 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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