The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Elmton, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Scarsdale

The Meaning of the Name

The name Elmton 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 Elmton.

Listed Buildings Near Elmton

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Elmton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Peter - 0.34 km

Grade II

Elmtree Farmhouse - 0.29 km
Barn to South of Grange Farmhouse - 0.32 km
Grange Farmhouse - 0.35 km

Elmton Today

Today Elmton lies within the administrative area of Elmton with Creswell, and the settlement recorded a population of 5,550 at the 2011 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 Elmton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Clowne - 2.2 km NW
Whitwell - 3.6 km NE
Bolsover - 4.2 km SW
Barlborough - 5.0 km NW
Scarcliffe - 5.1 km S
Palterton - 5.8 km SW

Heritage Around Elmton

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.

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Elmton in the Domesday Book (1086)