Linton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Linton, entered under the hundred of Goscote in LEC.
Other Settlements in Goscote
- Allexton
- Alton
- Anstey
- Appleby
- Appleby [Parva]
- Asfordby
- Ashby [-de-la-Zouch]
- Ashby [Folville]
- Barkby
- Barrow [-upon-Soar]
- Barsby
- Beeby
- Belgrave
- Birstall
The Meaning of the Name
The name Linton 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 Linton.
Listed Buildings Near Linton
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Linton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Manor House - 0.45 km
- Grange Farmhouse - 0.69 km
- Sealwood Cottage - 0.97 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Linton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Linton:
- Castle Gresley motte and bailey castle - 1.47 km
Linton Today
Today Linton lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,578 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 Linton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Caldwell - 2.2 km NW
- Rosliston - 3.0 km W
- Coton -in-the-Elms - 3.2 km W
- Hearthcote - 3.2 km N
- Nether or Over Seal - 3.2 km S
- Stanton - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Linton
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.
© Paul Buckingham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mat Fascione · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mat Fascione · 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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