Kirk Ireton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Kirk Ireton, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Hamston
- Alsop [-en-le-Dale]
- Ashbourne
- Atlow
- Ballidon
- Bonsall
- Bradbourne
- Brassington
- Broadlowash
- Callow
- Carsington
- Cowley
- Cromford
- Elton
- Hanson [Grange]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Kirk Ireton 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 Kirk Ireton.
Listed Buildings Near Kirk Ireton
Historic England records 23 listed buildings within about a mile of Kirk Ireton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Holy Trinity Church - 0.39 km
Grade II*
- The Barley Mow Inn - 0.33 km
Grade II
- Buxton Hall Farmhouse - 0.31 km
- Cottage to the North of Townend Farm - 0.32 km
- Northfield Farmhouse and Garden Wall - 0.33 km
- The Manor House - 0.33 km
- Outbuildings and Former Outbuildings to the West of the Barley Mow Inn - 0.34 km
- Moorside Cottage - 0.34 km
- Green Farmhouse - 0.36 km
- House to the South West of Green Farm - 0.37 km
- House South West of Churchyard Gates - 0.39 km
- The Gate Piers to Holy Trinity Churchyard - 0.39 km
- Rose Bank - 0.4 km
- Church Farmhouse - 0.41 km
- Prospect House - 0.42 km
- Cottage and Boundary Wall, Piers and Gate, North East of Methodist Church - 0.43 km
- Methodist Sunday School - 0.44 km
- Well Banks (At the Junction of Well Banks and Nether Lane) - 0.53 km
- Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings to the South of Well Banks - 0.56 km
- Topshill Barn - 0.64 km
- Topshill Farmhouse - 0.65 km
- Alton Hall - 1.22 km
- Sitch Farmhouse - 1.26 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Kirk Ireton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Kirk Ireton:
- Callow Hall moated site - 1.37 km
- Medieval settlement and part of an open field system, 250m north west of Callow Hall - 1.51 km
Kirk Ireton Today
Today Kirk Ireton lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 474 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 Kirk Ireton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [Kirk] Ireton
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.
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© Eamon Curry · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Poyser · 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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