Cold Eaton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Cold Eaton, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Hamston

• Alsop [-en-le-Dale]
• Ashbourne
• Atlow
• Ballidon
• Bonsall
• Bradbourne
• Brassington
• Broadlowash
• Callow
• Carsington
• Cowley
• Cromford
• Elton
• Hanson [Grange]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Cold Eaton 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 Cold Eaton.

Listed Buildings Near Cold Eaton

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Cold Eaton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Lode House - 1.1 km
• Milepost Approximately 100 Yards South East of Lode House - 1.15 km
• Lode Cottage and Attached Wall - 1.19 km
• Lode Close and Attached Outbuilding - 1.2 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Cold Eaton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Cold Eaton:

• Nettly Knowe bowl barrow - 0.72 km
• Liffs Low bowl barrow - 1.4 km
• Pea Low bowl barrow - 1.51 km
• Bowl barrow at south-eastern end of summit of Gratton Hill - 1.55 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Alsop -en-le-Dale - 2.2 km SE
• Hanson Grange - 3.0 km S
• Newton Grange - 3.6 km SE
• Parwich - 4.5 km SE
• Hartington - 4.5 km NW
• Tissington - 5.0 km SE