Blackwell in the Domesday Book (1086)
Blackwell appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Blackwell
- Abney
- Ashford [-in-the-Water]
- Aston
- Bakewell
- Bamford
- Baslow
- Beeley
- Birchills
- Birchover
- Bradwell
- Bubnell
- Burley
- Burton
- Calver
The Meaning of the Name
The name Blackwell is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wella, a spring or stream, while the first element appears to represent black. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the black spring’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Blackwell.
Listed Buildings Near Blackwell
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Blackwell. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Highcliffe Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.86 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Blackwell
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Blackwell:
- Bowl barrow known as Priestcliffe Low, 200m west of Low End Farm - 1.06 km
- Five Wells chambered tomb - 1.44 km
Blackwell Today
Today Blackwell lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 33 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 Blackwell on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Priestcliffe - 1.0 km E
- Wormhill - 2.0 km N
- Taddington - 2.2 km SE
- Flagg - 4.1 km S
- Tideswell - 4.2 km NE
- Litton - 5.0 km NE
Heritage Around Blackwell
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.
© Mike Harris · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Murray-Rust · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© alan fairweather · 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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