The settlement of Herdebi is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Herdebi at 1.2 carucates of taxable land.

Most significantly, Herdebi is recorded as waste in 1086 - land rendered uninhabitable and valueless. Before the Conquest, the settlement had been assessed at 5 shillings; by 1086 that value had collapsed entirely. This pattern - prosperity before 1066, devastation by 1086 - is the unmistakable signature of the Harrying of the North , William I’s campaign of systematic destruction across Yorkshire in 1069–70.

Other Settlements in Morleystone

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Herdebi 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 Herdebi.

Listed Buildings Near Herdebi

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Herdebi. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I