Hardstoft in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hardstoft, 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 Hardstoft is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word topt, a homestead plot. 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 homestead plot’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hardstoft.
Listed Buildings Near Hardstoft
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Hardstoft. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Former Sunday School - 0.79 km
- Yew Tree Farmhouse - 0.87 km
- Sitwell Lane Cottages - 1.11 km
Hardstoft Today
Today Hardstoft lies within the administrative area of Ault Hucknall.
Read more about modern Hardstoft on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Nether and Upper Pilsley - 1.0 km W
- Tibshelf - 2.0 km S
- Williamthorpe - 3.2 km N
- Newton - 3.2 km S
- Morton - 3.6 km SW
- Esnotrewic - 3.6 km SE
Heritage Around Hardstoft
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.
© Peter Kochut · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Tony Bacon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Tony Bacon · 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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