Clowne in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Clowne, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Scarsdale
- Alfreton
- Ashover
- Barlborough
- Barlow
- Beighton
- Blingsby
- Bolsover
- Boythorpe
- Bramley [Vale]
- Brimington
- Calow
- Chesterfield
- Dore
- Dronfield
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Clowne 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 Clowne.
Listed Buildings Near Clowne
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Clowne. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St John the Baptist - 0.28 km
- Clowne Cross - 0.46 km
Grade II
- War Memorial - 0.39 km
- Manor Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.72 km
- Barn to the South East of Number 106 - 0.78 km
- 106, High Street - 0.79 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Clowne
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Clowne:
- Standing cross, Clowne - 0.45 km
- Markland Grips promontory fort - 1.46 km
Clowne Today
Today Clowne lies within the administrative area of Bolsover, and the settlement recorded a population of 8,428 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 Clowne on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Clowne
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.
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · 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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