Edingale in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Edingale, entered under the hundred of Offlow in STS. The survey assessed Edingale at 5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Edingale supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 9 smallholders, 7 slaves, 2 freemanmen, working 12 ploughs between them.
The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, Edingale was worth 12 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 10 shillings – a fall of 16%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.
Resources Recorded at Edingale (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 10d)
Other Settlements in Offlow
- Agardsley
- Aldridge
- Alrewas
- Barr
- Barton [-under-Needwood]
- Bescot
- Bloxwich and [Little] Bloxwich
- Bradley and [Lower] Bradley
- Branston
- Burton [-upon-Trent]
- Clifton [Campville]
- Croxall
- Draycott [-in-the-Clay]
- Drayton [Bassett]
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Edingale is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Edingale.
Listed Buildings Near Edingale
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Edingale. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- 1 Schofield Lane - 0.3 km
- 2 Schofield Lane - 0.31 km
- 3 Schofield Lane - 0.32 km
- 4 Schofield Lane - 0.34 km
- Church Farmhouse and Attached Agricultural Buildings - 0.35 km
- Former Stable Approximately 10 Yards North West of the Old Vicarage - 0.37 km
- The Firs - 0.38 km
- The Old Vicarage - 0.38 km
- Church of Holy Trinity - 0.39 km
- The Old School House - 0.61 km
Edingale Today
Today Edingale lies within the administrative area of Lichfield, and the settlement recorded a population of 631 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 Edingale on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Croxall - 2.2 km NW
- Lullington - 3.2 km E
- Catton - 3.2 km N
- Coton -in-the-Elms - 4.2 km NE
- Clifton Campville - 4.5 km SE
- Rosliston - 5.0 km NE
Heritage Around Edingale
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.
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris' Buet · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alf Beard · 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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