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

Other Settlements in Appletree

The Meaning of the Name

The name Brailsford is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Brailsford.

Listed Buildings Near Brailsford

Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of Brailsford. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of All Saints - 1.12 km

Grade II

Towns Well - 0.08 km
The Bakery - 0.09 km
School House - 0.11 km
School - 0.12 km
Coach House at Brailsford House - 0.19 km
Brailsford House - 0.19 km
Green Farmhouse - 0.27 km
Barn to South of Green Farmhouse - 0.3 km
Garage Cottages and Garage Shop - 0.32 km
Coach House at the Oaklands - 0.32 km
Hall Farmhouse - 0.32 km
Oaklands - 0.33 km
Old Rectory - 0.36 km
Pools Head Farmhouse - 1.05 km
Church Stable - 1.1 km
Churchyard Cross - 1.12 km
Top Wildpark Farmhouse - 1.22 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Brailsford

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Brailsford:

Anglo-Scandinavian high cross shaft and medieval cross base in the churchyard of All Saints’ Church - 1.12 km

Brailsford Today

Today Brailsford lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,320 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 Brailsford on Wikipedia .