Brimington in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Brimington, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Scarsdale
- Alfreton
- Ashover
- Barlborough
- Barlow
- Beighton
- Blingsby
- Bolsover
- Boythorpe
- Bramley [Vale]
- Calow
- Chesterfield
- Clowne
- Dore
- Dronfield
The Meaning of the Name
The name Brimington 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 Brimington.
Listed Buildings Near Brimington
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Brimington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Tapton Grove - 1.13 km
Grade II
- Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels - 0.12 km
- 15, High Street - 0.14 km
- Garden Wall at Number 15 - 0.15 km
- 24 and 24A, High Street - 0.19 km
- Range of Farm Buildings to North East and South East of Grove Farmhouse, Street Boundary Walls and Gatepiers at Grove Farmhouse - 0.24 km
- Brimington Memorial Gates - 0.24 km
- Grove Farmhouse - 0.27 km
- Sutton Lodge - 0.33 km
- Large Centre Block to Brimington County Junior Mixed School - 0.33 km
- The Manor House - 0.39 km
- Street Boundary Wall and Gatepiers at the Manor House - 0.39 km
- Ringwood Hall - 0.74 km
- 64 Station Road - 0.75 km
- Stables at Tapton Grove (To East of House) - 1.13 km
- Gatepiers at Drive Entrance (To Tapton Grange/manor/grove) - 1.27 km
Brimington Today
Today Brimington lies within the administrative area of Chesterfield, and the settlement recorded a population of 8,939 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 Brimington on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Tapton - 1.4 km SW
- Calow - 2.0 km S
- Old Whittington - 2.2 km NW
- Chesterfield - 2.8 km SW
- Staveley - 3.2 km E
- Middle, Nether and West Handley - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Brimington
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.
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Michael Patterson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · 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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