Kirk Langley in the Domesday Book (1086)
Kirk Langley 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 Kirk Langley 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 Kirk Langley.
Listed Buildings Near Kirk Langley
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Kirk Langley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Michael - 0.39 km
Grade II
- The Leeke Memorial Hall - 0.41 km
- Churchyard Cross 20 Metres South of Church of St. Michael - 0.43 km
- The Red House - 0.46 km
- Langley House - 0.47 km
- Langley Barton - 0.47 km
- Meynell House - 0.53 km
- Former stable block to west of Meynell House - 0.55 km
- Milepost at Os 293 387 - 0.68 km
- The Pastures - 0.73 km
- Langley Hall - 1.06 km
- Garden Walls at Barn Croft - 1.13 km
- Hall Farmhouse - 1.25 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Kirk Langley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Kirk Langley:
Kirk Langley Today
Today Kirk Langley lies within the administrative area of Amber Valley, and the settlement recorded a population of 714 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 Langley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [Kirk] Langley
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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© John H Darch · 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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