Great Barlow in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Scarsdale

• Alfreton
• Ashover
• Barlborough
• Barlow
• Beighton
• Blingsby
• Bolsover
• Boythorpe
• Bramley [Vale]
• Brimington
• Calow
• Chesterfield
• Clowne
• Dore

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Great Barlow 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 Great Barlow.

Listed Buildings Near Great Barlow

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Great Barlow. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• The Parish Church of St Lawrence - 0.3 km
• Cutthorpe Old Hall - 1.14 km

Grade II

• The Main Well - 0.2 km
• Church House - 0.28 km
• The Old Vicarage - 0.35 km
• Wilkin Hill Pinfold - 0.37 km
• Newbold Fields - 1.02 km
• Lee Bridge - 1.04 km
• Old Hall Cottage - 1.15 km
• Bolehill House - 1.29 km

Great Barlow Today

Today Great Barlow lies within the administrative area of North East Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 915 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 Barlow on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Newbold and Upper Newbold - 1.4 km SE
• Holme - 2.0 km S
• Old Brampton - 3.2 km S
• Holmesfield - 3.6 km NW
• Old Whittington - 4.0 km E
• Dronfield - 4.1 km N