Hoon in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Hoon is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Appletree
- Alkmonton
- Ashe
- Aston
- Barton [Blount]
- Bentley
- Boylestone
- Bradley
- Brailsford
- Bupton
- Clifton
- Doveridge
- Eaton [Dovedale]
- Edlaston
- Ednaston
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Hoon 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 Hoon.
Listed Buildings Near Hoon
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Hoon. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Hoon Ridge - 0.76 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Hoon
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hoon:
- Hoon Mount platformed bowl barrow - 0.54 km
Hoon Today
Today Hoon lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 55 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 Hoon on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Hilton - 2.2 km SE
- Hatton - 2.2 km SW
- Marston -on-Dove - 2.2 km SE
- Church Broughton - 2.8 km NW
- Scropton - 3.2 km W
- Sutton -on-the-Hill - 3.6 km NE
Heritage Around Hoon
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.
© M J Richardson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© M J Richardson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dave Bevis · 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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