The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Flagg, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Flagg at 2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Flagg supported a recorded population of 16 villagers, 2 smallholders, 7 slaves, working 6 ploughs between them.

The survey records Flagg’s value at 5.25 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Flagg (1086)

Pigs: 10
Sheep: 6
Meadow: 12 acres
Woodland: 56 acres

Other Settlements in Blackwell

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Flagg 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 Flagg.

Listed Buildings Near Flagg

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

Grade II*

Flagg Hall - 0.17 km
Old Farmhouse, Town Head Farm - 0.9 km

Grade II

Range of Stables and Barn to West of Flagg Hall - 0.13 km
Outbuilding to North West of Flagg Hall - 0.16 km

Flagg Today

Today Flagg lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 198 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 Flagg on Wikipedia .