Catton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Catton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Walecros in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Walecros

• Appleby [Magna]
• Bolun
• Bretby
• Caldwell
• Coton [-in-the-Elms]
• Drakelowe
• Foremark
• Hartshorne
• Hearthcote
• Ingleby
• Lullington
• Melbourne
• Milton
• Newton [Solney]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Catton 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 Catton.

Listed Buildings Near Catton

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Catton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Catton Hall - 0.1 km

Grade II

• Chapel of Ease at Catton Hall - 0.09 km
• North Range of Stables and Attached Gate Pier at Catton Hall - 0.14 km
• South Range of Stables and Attached Archway at Catton Hall - 0.15 km
• Kitchen Garden Walls at Catton Hall - 0.27 km
• The Round Lodge - 0.62 km

Catton Today

Today Catton lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 45 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 Catton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Croxall - 2.2 km SW
• Walton -on-Trent - 3.2 km N
• Edingale - 3.2 km S
• Coton -in-the-Elms - 4.0 km E
• Rosliston - 4.1 km E
• Lullington - 4.5 km SE