Calow in the Domesday Book (1086)
Calow appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Scarsdale
- Alfreton
- Ashover
- Barlborough
- Barlow
- Beighton
- Blingsby
- Bolsover
- Boythorpe
- Bramley [Vale]
- Brimington
- Chesterfield
- Clowne
- Dore
- Dronfield
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Calow 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 Calow.
Listed Buildings Near Calow
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Calow. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Tapton Grove - 1.08 km
Grade II
- Plover Hill Farmhouse - 0.13 km
- Former Threshing Barn to North East of Plover Hill Farmhouse - 0.14 km
- Church of St Peter - 0.54 km
- Dryhurst - 0.56 km
- Dobbin Clough Farmhouse and Attached Barn to South of House - 0.87 km
- Tapton Manor - 0.88 km
- Crewe Cottage - 0.88 km
- Calow War Memorial - 0.95 km
- Stables at Tapton Grove (To East of House) - 1.03 km
- Lodge House - 1.21 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Calow
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Calow:
- Tapton Castle motte - 1.59 km
Calow Today
Today Calow lies within the administrative area of North East Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,342 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 Calow on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Tapton - 1.4 km NW
- Chesterfield - 2.0 km W
- Brimington - 2.0 km N
- Boythorpe - 3.6 km SW
- Old Whittington - 3.6 km NW
- Duckmanton and Long Duckmanton - 4.0 km E
Heritage Around Calow
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.
© Chris Allen · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · 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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