Harthill in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Harthill, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Harthill at 6 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Harthill supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, working 1 plough between them.

The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, Harthill was worth 1.51 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 3d – a fall of 90%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

The survey lists 2 manors at Harthill under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Harthill (1086)

• Meadow: 5 acres

Other Settlements in Blackwell

• Abney
• Ashford [-in-the-Water]
• Aston
• Bakewell
• Bamford
• Baslow
• Beeley
• Birchills
• Birchover
• Blackwell
• Bradwell
• Bubnell
• Burley
• Burton

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Harthill 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 Harthill.

Listed Buildings Near Harthill

Historic England records 31 listed buildings within about a mile of Harthill. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Broadmeadow Broadmeadow Cottage - 0.21 km
• Barn at Harthill Hall Farm - 0.36 km
• Harthill Hall Harthill Hall Cottage - 0.39 km
• Alport Mill - 0.4 km
• Mill Bridge - 0.41 km
• Mill Cottage - 0.43 km
• Bridge 10 Metres North West of Alport Mill - 0.43 km
• Rose Cottage Sunny View - 0.46 km
• Haddonfields Farmhouse - 0.48 km
• Hill View and Attached Barn - 0.5 km
• Bradford House the Cottage - 0.51 km
• The Cottage - 0.53 km
• Monks Hall and Cottage and attached garden walls and gatepiers - 0.53 km
• Rock House - 0.54 km
• Fern Glen - 0.54 km
• Riverside - 0.54 km
• Harthill Lodge - 0.57 km
• Lathkill House Farmhouse - 0.61 km
• Hawley Bridge 100 Metres North North East of Harthill Lodge - 0.66 km
• Milestone 15 Metres North of Stoney Ley Lodge - 0.98 km
• Raenstor Close and Attached Garage - 0.99 km
• Garden Walls, Pergola and Gatepiers to Raenstor Close - 1.05 km
• Bower Hall - 1.06 km
• Lodge, Stableblock and Outbuilding to Raenstor Close - 1.09 km

…and 7 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Harthill

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Harthill:

• Alport smelt mill - 0.46 km
• Bowl barrow on Haddon Fields - 1.42 km

Harthill Today

Today Harthill lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 48 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 Harthill on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Youlgrave - 1.0 km W
• Conksbury - 1.4 km NW
• Stanton -in-Peak - 2.0 km E
• Birchover - 2.2 km SE
• Nether and Over Haddon - 2.8 km NW
• Elton - 3.0 km S