Coal Aston in the Domesday Book (1086)

Coal Aston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, 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
• Clowne
• Dore

The Meaning of the Name

The name Coal Aston 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 Coal Aston.

Listed Buildings Near Coal Aston

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

Grade II*

• Aston End - 0.57 km

Grade II

• Range of Outbuildings to the East of Silkstone Farmhouse - 0.34 km
• Silkstone Farmhouse - 0.35 km
• Two Farm Buildings to East of Norwood Farmhouse - 0.49 km
• Norwood Farmhouse - 0.5 km
• 14 and 16 Eckington Road - 0.53 km
• Summerley Hall, attached garden walls and gatepiers - 0.96 km
• Summerley Farmhouse - 0.98 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Coal Aston

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

• Coke ovens, 120m north east of Summerley House - 1.36 km

Coal Aston Today

Today Coal Aston lies within the administrative area of Dronfield.

Read more about modern Coal Aston on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Dronfield - 1.4 km SW
• Upton - 1.4 km SW
• Unstone - 2.2 km SE
• Norton and Little Norton - 3.2 km N
• Middle, Nether and West Handley - 3.6 km SE
• Holmesfield - 4.5 km SW