Langley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Langley, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Blackwell
- Abney
- Ashford [-in-the-Water]
- Aston
- Bakewell
- Bamford
- Baslow
- Beeley
- Birchills
- Birchover
- Blackwell
- Bradwell
- Bubnell
- Burley
- Burton
The Meaning of the Name
The name 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 Langley.
Listed Buildings Near Langley
Historic England records 42 listed buildings within about a mile of Langley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Peter - 0.64 km
Grade II*
- Norman Villa and attached garden walls - 0.59 km
Grade II
- Top House - 0.35 km
- Moor View - 0.38 km
- Barbrook Cottage - 0.43 km
- Bank Top - 0.44 km
- The Bungalow - 0.46 km
- 1 and 2 Daisy Bank, and attached wall and outhouse - 0.49 km
- Rock Villa - 0.49 km
- Shepherds Cottage - 0.53 km
- Sunny Bank and Rose Cottage - 0.55 km
- The Cottage and Hollybush Cottage and attached garden wall - 0.58 km
- Chest Tomb to Sir Joseph Paxton 40 Metres South of Church of St Peter - 0.59 km
- The Old Vicarage - 0.62 km
- Deerlands, Coombe Cottage and Guide Cottage - 0.62 km
- The Vicarage - 0.63 km
- Edensor House - 0.64 km
- Churchyard Cross and Sundial 5 Metres South of South Chapel - 0.64 km
- Church View and attached garden walls - 0.64 km
- The Yews - 0.65 km
- House North of the Yews - 0.67 km
- School House and attached garden walls - 0.67 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside the Post Office - 0.69 km
- Post Office and Attached Cottage - 0.69 km
…and 18 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Langley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Langley:
- Bowl barrow on Calton Pastures, 625m WSW of Calton Houses - 1.32 km
- Bowl barrow on Calton Pastures, 950m west of Calton Houses - 1.37 km
- Bowl barrow on Calton Pastures, 600m south-west of Calton Houses - 1.48 km
- Bowl barrow on Calton Pastures, 1200m west of Calton Houses - 1.52 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around 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.
© Roger McLachlan · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Tarleton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© 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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