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

Other Settlements in Morleystone

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hallam 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 Hallam.

Listed Buildings Near Hallam

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

Grade I

Church of All Saints - 0.27 km

Grade II

The Hall the Old Hall - 0.75 km
Brick Kiln - 0.79 km
The Gables - 0.87 km

Hallam Today

Today Hallam lies within the administrative area of Erewash, and the settlement recorded a population of 6,417 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Kirk Hallam on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Little? Hallam - 1.0 km E
Ilkeston - 1.4 km NE
Stanley - 3.0 km W
Stanton -by-Dale - 3.2 km S
Mapperley - 3.6 km NW
Hopwell - 4.1 km S

Heritage Around Hallam

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.

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.

Hallam in the Domesday Book (1086)