The settlement of Birchills is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Blackwell

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Birchills 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 Birchills.

Listed Buildings Near Birchills

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Birchills. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Milepost at Os 226703 - 0.16 km
Guidestone at Os236697 - 1.21 km
Aldern House (Eastern Part Only) - 1.21 km
Milepost at Os 235713 - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Birchills

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Birchills:

Bowl barrow and wayside cross WSW of Pilsley - 0.94 km
Promontory fort south of Ballcross Farm - 1.35 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Holme - 1.4 km SW
Hassop - 2.0 km N
Pilsley - 2.2 km NE
Great Longstone - 2.2 km NW
Edensor - 2.2 km SE
Langley - 2.2 km SE

Heritage Around Birchills

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.

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Birchills in the Domesday Book (1086)