Kedleston in the Domesday Book (1086)

Kedleston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Litchurch

• Allestree
• Alvaston
• Ambaston
• Arleston
• Aston [-on-Trent]
• Barrow [-upon-Trent]
• Bearwardcote
• Boulton
• Burnaston
• Chellaston
• Cottons
• Dalbury
• Egginton
• Elvaston

The Meaning of the Name

The name Kedleston 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 Kedleston.

Listed Buildings Near Kedleston

Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of Kedleston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• The Boathouse - 0.83 km
• The Bridge and Cascade - 1.0 km

Grade II*

• The South Lodges - 0.29 km
• The Old Rectory and Attached Stable Block - 0.42 km
• The Stables - 1.26 km
• The Orangery - 1.28 km

Grade II

• The Smithy - 0.04 km
• Milepost at Os 304 415 - 0.17 km
• Walls at Ireton Gardens - 0.61 km
• Hall Close Farmhouse - 0.64 km
• Ireton Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings - 0.74 km
• The Hermitage - 0.97 km
• Saw Mill and Attached Engine House in Kedleston Park - 0.97 km
• Engine House by Saw Mill in Kedleston Park - 0.99 km
• The Lion’s Mouth - 1.1 km
• Gift Shop - 1.27 km
• Iron Screen North of the Hall - 1.29 km
• Covered Arcade and Attached Ice House - 1.3 km

Kedleston Today

Today Kedleston lies within the administrative area of Amber Valley, and the settlement recorded a population of 52 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 Kedleston on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Ireton - 1.0 km E
• Weston Underwood - 1.4 km NW
• Mugginton - 2.2 km NW
• Quarndon - 3.0 km E
• Kirk Langley - 3.6 km SW
• Mackworth - 4.1 km S