Kniveton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Kniveton, 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 Kniveton 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 Kniveton.
Listed Buildings Near Kniveton
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Kniveton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Michael - 0.6 km
Grade II
- Former Wesleyan Chapel - 0.82 km
- Primitive Methodist Chapel - 0.88 km
- Red Lion Inn - 0.93 km
- James Cottage - 0.94 km
- Old Hall (Now Post Office) - 0.95 km
- Brook Cottage - 0.97 km
- Brook Farm, Barn to North of House - 0.98 km
- Brook Farmhouse - 0.99 km
- James Lane Farmhouse - 1.01 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Kniveton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Kniveton:
- Two bowl barrows on Stand Low - 0.48 km
- Bank Top oval barrow - 1.26 km
- Bank Top bowl barrow - 1.32 km
Kniveton Today
Today Kniveton lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 357 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 Kniveton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Hognaston - 2.0 km E
- Bradbourne - 2.2 km NW
- Atlow - 2.2 km SE
- Offcote - 2.8 km SW
- Fenny Bentley - 4.0 km W
- Ballidon - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Kniveton
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.
© John Poyser · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Brian Green · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Nikki Mahadevan · 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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