Chilcote in the Domesday Book (1086)
Chilcote appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Goscote in LEC.
Other Settlements in Goscote
- Allexton
- Alton
- Anstey
- Appleby
- Appleby [Parva]
- Asfordby
- Ashby [-de-la-Zouch]
- Ashby [Folville]
- Barkby
- Barrow [-upon-Soar]
- Barsby
- Beeby
- Belgrave
- Birstall
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Chilcote 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 Chilcote.
Listed Buildings Near Chilcote
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Chilcote. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Rock Farmhouse - 0.02 km
- Hurst Farmhouse and Hurst Lodge - 0.05 km
- Church of St Matthew - 0.16 km
- Chilcote Pumping Station - 1.08 km
- Park Farmhouse - 1.24 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Chilcote
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Chilcote:
Chilcote Today
Today Chilcote lies within the administrative area of North West Leicestershire, and the settlement recorded a population of 133 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 Chilcote on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Stretton -en-le-Field - 2.0 km E
- Nether or Over Seal - 2.0 km N
- Clifton Campville - 3.2 km W
- Appleby Magna - 3.6 km SE
- Donisthorpe - 4.2 km NE
- Oakthorpe - 4.5 km NE
Heritage Around Chilcote
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.
© Paul Buckingham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© cris sloan · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mat Fascione · 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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