Ednaston in the Domesday Book (1086)
Ednaston 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]
- Edlaston
- Fenton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Ednaston 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 Ednaston.
Listed Buildings Near Ednaston
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Ednaston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Ednaston Manor and Attached Walls and Terracing - 0.85 km
- Church of All Saints - 0.91 km
Grade II
- Ednaston House and Attached Outbuildings, Walls and Railings - 0.31 km
- Range of Outbuildings at Ednaston House - 0.32 km
- Mile Post at Os 239 419 - 0.54 km
- Brailsford Bridge - 0.78 km
- Boundary Post at Os 243 418 - 0.84 km
- Churchyard Cross - 0.92 km
- Brailsford Mill Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings - 0.93 km
- Church Stable - 0.94 km
- Brailsford Mill - 0.94 km
- Ednaston Home Farmhouse - 1.19 km
- Barn and Attached Stable Range at Churchfields Farm - 1.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Ednaston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Ednaston:
- Anglo-Scandinavian high cross shaft and medieval cross base in the churchyard of All Saints’ Church - 0.92 km
Ednaston Today
Today Ednaston lies within the administrative area of Brailsford.
Read more about modern Ednaston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Brailsford - 2.0 km E
- Shirley - 2.0 km W
- Hollington - 2.2 km SW
- Rodsley - 3.2 km W
- Mercaston - 3.6 km NE
- Bupton - 4.1 km S
Heritage Around Ednaston
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.
© Martyn Glover · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Clive Woolliscroft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Clive Woolliscroft · 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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