Chellaston is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Litchurch

The Meaning of the Name

The name Chellaston 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 Chellaston.

Listed Buildings Near Chellaston

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

Grade II*

Church of St Peter - 0.49 km

Grade II

A Range of Loose Boxes to East of White House Farmhouse With Barns (Now Partly Demolished) on Return Side in Aston Lane - 0.33 km
White House Farmhouse - 0.37 km
1A, Green Avenue - 0.45 km
4, Swarkestone Road - 0.74 km
Pear Tree Cottage - 0.79 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Chellaston

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

Settlement site - 0.87 km

Chellaston Today

Today Chellaston lies within the administrative area of City of Derby, and the settlement recorded a population of 15,198 at the 2011 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 Chellaston on Wikipedia .