Edlaston in the Domesday Book (1086)
Edlaston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Appletree
- Alkmonton
- Ashe
- Aston
- Barton [Blount]
- Bentley
- Boylestone
- Bradley
- Brailsford
- Bupton
- Clifton
- Doveridge
- Eaton [Dovedale]
- Ednaston
- Fenton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Edlaston 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 Edlaston.
Listed Buildings Near Edlaston
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Edlaston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St James - 0.52 km
Grade II
- Wyaston Grove - 0.44 km
- Tomb 6 Yards South of South Porch - 0.51 km
- Cross 15 Yards South - 0.51 km
- Tomb 10 Yards South of South Porch - 0.52 km
- Edlaston Hall - 1.02 km
- Farm Building to North West of Edlaston Hall - 1.05 km
- Copse Hill - 1.13 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Edlaston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Edlaston:
- Wyaston hlaew - 0.68 km
- Moated site 60m west of Edlaston Hall - 1.12 km
- Osmaston Fields bowl barrow, south - 1.53 km
Edlaston Today
Today Edlaston lies within the administrative area of Edlaston and Wyaston, and the settlement recorded a population of 220 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Edlaston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Edlaston
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.
© David Stowell · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Martyn Glover · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Jerry Evans · 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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