Hognaston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Hognaston at 23 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Hognaston supported a recorded population of 18 villagers, working 9 ploughs between them.

Resources Recorded at Hognaston (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 1d)
Meadow: 40 acres
Woodland: 2 * 2 leagues

Other Settlements in Hamston

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hognaston is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hognaston.

Listed Buildings Near Hognaston

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Hognaston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Bartholomew - 0.14 km

Grade II

Old Hall - 0.07 km
Church Farmhouse - 0.08 km
Knowl House and Outbuildings - 0.18 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.2 km
Brook House Farmhouse - 0.31 km
Green Farmhouse - 0.32 km
The Green Cottage and Rose Cottage and Attached Outbuildings - 0.32 km
Outbuilding to East of Green Farmhouse - 0.34 km

Hognaston Today

Today Hognaston lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 238 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 Hognaston on Wikipedia .