Handley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Handley 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 name Handley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Handley.
Listed Buildings Near Handley
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Handley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Boar Farmhouse - 0.32 km
- Hawksley House Farm and Attached Barn - 0.35 km
- Handley House and attached garden wall and gate - 0.4 km
- Castle Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.82 km
- Handley Lodge Farmhouse and attached outbuildings and garden wall - 0.88 km
- Toll Bar Cottage - 0.97 km
- Three Bridges at Smithymoor Nr Stretton Station - 1.11 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Handley
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.
© Nikki Mahadevan · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · 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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