Doveridge is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Appletree

The Meaning of the Name

The name Doveridge is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hrycg, a ridge. 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 ridge’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Doveridge.

Listed Buildings Near Doveridge

Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of Doveridge. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Cuthbert - 0.42 km

Grade II*

Lowerstreet Farmhouse - 0.76 km
Manor House - 0.85 km
Dove Bridge - 1.04 km

Grade II

The Cavendish Arms - 0.13 km
Petworth - 0.38 km
Stable Block and Attached Gates to East of Petworth - 0.38 km
Churchyard Cross at Church of St Cuthbert - 0.43 km
North Lodge Farmhouse - 0.43 km
Old Vicarage - 0.47 km
Ivy House - 0.54 km
Old Hall - 0.65 km
The Gables - 0.81 km
Slade House - 0.94 km
Brookside Cottage - 0.95 km
The Willows - 0.96 km
Dove Bridge (Over River Dove) - 1.04 km
Woodhouse Farmhouse - 1.19 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Doveridge

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Doveridge:

Dove Bridge See also DERBYSHIRE 56 - 1.05 km
Dove Bridge See also STAFFORDSHIRE 260 - 1.05 km

Doveridge Today

Today Doveridge lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,760 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 Doveridge on Wikipedia .