Horsley in the Domesday Book (1086)
Horsley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Morleystone
- Bradley
- Breadsall
- Breaston
- Cellesdene
- Chaddesden
- Codnor
- Crich
- Denby
- Derby
- Draycott
- Duffield
- Hallam
- Heanor
- Herdebi
The Meaning of the Name
The name Horsley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Horsley.
Listed Buildings Near Horsley
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Horsley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Clement - 0.07 km
Grade II*
- Holbrook Hall - 1.29 km
Grade II
- The Sophia Water Fountain at Sk 376 445 - 0.05 km
- Old Post Box Opposite Horsley School - 0.19 km
- Milepost Opposite Sewage Works Drive at Lower Kilburn Sk 374 449 - 0.54 km
- Grange Cottage - 0.75 km
- Nether Cottage and Attached Outbuildings - 1.08 km
- Coxbench Hall and Attached Stableblocks - 1.11 km
- Oakdene Cottage - 1.2 km
- Farmbuildings to South of Highfield Farmhouse - 1.22 km
- Church of St Michael - 1.23 km
- Highfields Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings - 1.23 km
- Gates, Attached Wall and War Memorial to North of St Michael’s Church - 1.23 km
- Stocking Frame Knitters Workshop to Rear of Numbers 18 and 20 - 1.26 km
- Stocking Frame Knitter’s Workshop to Rear of Number 10 - 1.27 km
- Cruck Barn and Attached Outbuildings at Manor Court - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Horsley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Horsley:
- Horsley Castle tower keep castle - 1.26 km
Horsley Today
Today Horsley lies within the administrative area of Amber Valley, and the settlement recorded a population of 731 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 Horsley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Horsley
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.
© Garth Newton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Garth Newton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Walker · 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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