Beighton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Beighton at 2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Beighton supported a recorded population of 12 villagers, 8 smallholders, working 5 ploughs between them.

The survey records Beighton’s value at 2 shillings 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.

Resources Recorded at Beighton (1086)

Meadow: 1 acres
Woodland: 2 * 0.5 leagues

Other Settlements in Scarsdale

The Meaning of the Name

The name Beighton 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 Beighton.

Listed Buildings Near Beighton

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Beighton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*