The settlement of Church Broughton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Appletree

The Meaning of the Name

The name Church Broughton 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 Church Broughton.

Listed Buildings Near Church Broughton

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Church Broughton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Michael and All Angels - 0.31 km

Grade II*

Barton Hall - 1.22 km

Grade II

Old Hall - 0.09 km
Cromwell House Farmhouse - 0.26 km
Church Cottages - 0.31 km
Garden Walls, Iron Work, Summer House and Bridge at Barton Hall - 1.18 km
Chapel of St Chad - 1.26 km
Stable Block at Barton Hall - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Church Broughton

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

Barton Blount medieval settlement remains, including a chapel, decoy pond and part of the open field system, 340m north of Barton Hall - 1.45 km

Church Broughton Today

Today Church Broughton lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 530 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 Church Broughton on Wikipedia .