Foston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Foston is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey 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
- Ednaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Foston 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 Foston.
Listed Buildings Near Foston
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Foston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Foston Hall and Attached Archway With Wrought Iron Gates - 0.2 km
- Stable Block to Foston Hall - 0.35 km
- Leathersley Farm House - 1.18 km
- Broomhill - 1.25 km
Foston Today
Today Foston lies within the administrative area of Foston and Scropton.
Read more about modern Foston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Foston
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.
© M J Richardson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© M J Richardson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Geoff Pick · 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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