Hanson Grange in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hanson Grange, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Hamston

• Alsop [-en-le-Dale]
• Ashbourne
• Atlow
• Ballidon
• Bonsall
• Bradbourne
• Brassington
• Broadlowash
• Callow
• Carsington
• Cowley
• Cromford
• Elton
• Hartington

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hanson Grange 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 Hanson Grange.

Listed Buildings Near Hanson Grange

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Hanson Grange. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Hanson Grange - 0.37 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Hanson Grange

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 9 lie within roughly a mile of Hanson Grange:

• Bostern Grange bowl barrow - 0.55 km
• Bowl barrow south of Stanshope Pasture - 0.77 km
• Moat Low bowl barrow - 1.05 km
• Cromwell’s Low bowl barrow - 1.09 km
• Ilamtops Low bowl barrow - 1.29 km
• Stand Low hlaew - 1.32 km
• Viator’s Bridge See also STAFFORDSHIRE 1 - 1.38 km
• Viator’s Bridge, Milldale See also DERBYSHIRE 45 - 1.38 km
• Bowl barrow 540m north-east of Beechenhill - 1.48 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Newton Grange - 2.0 km E
• Alsop -en-le-Dale - 2.8 km NE
• Cold Eaton - 3.0 km N
• Tissington - 3.2 km E
• Broadlowash - 3.2 km S
• Thorpe - 3.2 km S