Eckington appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Eckington at 16 carucates of taxable land.

The survey lists 2 manors at Eckington under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Other Settlements in Scarsdale

The Meaning of the Name

The name Eckington 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 Eckington.

Listed Buildings Near Eckington

Historic England records 35 listed buildings within about a mile of Eckington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul - 0.68 km

Grade II*

The Rectory - 0.69 km

Grade II

Methodist Chapel - 0.29 km
Green Hall Farmhouse - 0.31 km
Numbers 125 and 127 and Attached Outbuilding to East - 0.32 km
131, 133 and 135, High Street - 0.36 km
Numbers 24-28 (Even) Including Premises Occupied by Scarlett Ribbons, New Wizard and Woodheads - 0.42 km
The Angel Hotel - 0.42 km
13-19, Market Street - 0.44 km
74, Church Street - 0.45 km
68 and 70, Church Street - 0.46 km
Camms House - 0.47 km
35, Church Street - 0.47 km
The Hollies - 0.52 km
Southgate Old House - 0.58 km
Malthouse Farmhouse - 0.63 km
Barn to North West of Malthouse Farmhouse - 0.63 km
Monument of the South East Corner of the South Aisle of Eckington Parish Church - 0.68 km
Entrance Gatepiers and Attached Boundary Wall to Eckington Rectory - 0.68 km
Rectory Cottage - 0.7 km
The Green - 0.76 km
28, Church Street - 0.77 km
Garden Walls, Pergolas and Gate to Landscape Garden and to Water Garden at the Green - 0.79 km
Coldwell Cottage - 0.81 km

…and 11 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Eckington

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

Plumbley Colliery including Seldom Seen engine house, 600m north east of Roundhill Cottages - 0.72 km
Tramway embankment - 1.13 km

Eckington Today

Today Eckington lies within the administrative area of North East Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 11,845 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 Eckington on Wikipedia .