Gratton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Gratton, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Blackwell
- Abney
- Ashford [-in-the-Water]
- Aston
- Bakewell
- Bamford
- Baslow
- Beeley
- Birchills
- Birchover
- Blackwell
- Bradwell
- Bubnell
- Burley
- Burton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Gratton 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 Gratton.
Listed Buildings Near Gratton
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Gratton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Gratton Grange Farmhouse - 0.42 km
- Outbuilding to the south east of Gratton Grange Farmhouse - 0.43 km
- Outbuildings to the North West of Dale End - 0.49 km
- Dale End - 0.5 km
- Outbuilding Attached to South West End of Dale End Farmbuilding - 0.56 km
- Farmhouse South of Dale End Farmhouse - 0.57 km
- Dale End Farmhouse - 0.57 km
- Lowfield Farmhouse - 0.75 km
- Smerrill Grange - 0.8 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Gratton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Gratton:
- Medieval settlement immediately south east of Smerrill Grange - 0.67 km
- Lead mines 600m and 980m south west of Oddo House Farm - 1.05 km
- Borther Low bowl barrow - 1.08 km
- Larks Low bowl barrow - 1.25 km
Gratton Today
Today Gratton lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 15 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 Gratton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Gratton
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.
© DAVID M GOODWIN · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mark Kelly · 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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