The settlement of Farley is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Blackwell

The Meaning of the Name

The name Farley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Farley.

Listed Buildings Near Farley

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Farley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Former cottage with attached barn and pigsties, at Farley Farm - 1.27 km

Farley Today

Today Farley lies within the administrative area of Darley Dale.

Read more about modern Farley on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Matlock - 2.2 km SW
Matlock Bridge? - 2.2 km SW
Cotes - 2.8 km NW
Darley - 3.0 km W
Snitterton - 3.6 km SW
Burley - 3.6 km NW

Heritage Around Farley

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.

Farley Moor view of Matlock Farm Park across Matlock Moor (2007)
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Farley Moor Boundary - View across Matlock Moor (2007)
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Matlock Moor Methodists (2006)
© Michael Patterson · 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.

Farley in the Domesday Book (1086)