Darley in the Domesday Book (1086)
Darley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Blackwell
- Abney
- Ashford [-in-the-Water]
- Aston
- Bakewell
- Bamford
- Baslow
- Beeley
- Birchills
- Birchover
- Blackwell
- Bradwell
- Bubnell
- Burley
- Burton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Darley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Darley.
Listed Buildings Near Darley
Historic England records 23 listed buildings within about a mile of Darley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Darley Bridge (Over River Derwent) - 0.67 km
- Holt House - 0.85 km
- Parish Church of St Helen - 1.06 km
Grade II
- Darley Station Houses - 0.35 km
- Mile Post 4 Miles From Matlock - 0.4 km
- Darley Dale Station - 0.41 km
- Whitworth Hotel - 0.41 km
- Darley Dale Station (Building on North Platform) - 0.41 km
- Whitworth Institute - 0.44 km
- Darley Dale Infants School - 0.53 km
- Square and Compass Public House - 0.63 km
- Darley Hall (Maternity Home) - 0.68 km
- The Cottage - 0.72 km
- Plough Inn - 0.73 km
- Potters Cottage - 0.78 km
- Three Stags Heads Public House - 0.8 km
- Fir Tree Cottage - 0.82 km
- Outbuilding of Rectory - 1.02 km
- White House - 1.07 km
- Grouse Inn - 1.18 km
- Mile Stone 3 Miles From Matlock - 1.26 km
- Church of St Mary - 1.27 km
- Boundary Walls to Former Whitworth Estate - 1.3 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Darley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Darley:
- Darley Bridge - 0.67 km
Darley Today
Today Darley lies within the administrative area of South Darley.
Read more about modern Darley Bridge on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Darley
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.
© John Poyser · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger May · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John M · 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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