Little Eaton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Little Eaton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Morleystone
- Bradley
- Breadsall
- Breaston
- Cellesdene
- Chaddesden
- Codnor
- Crich
- Denby
- Derby
- Draycott
- Duffield
- Hallam
- Heanor
- Herdebi
The Meaning of the Name
The name Little Eaton 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 Little Eaton.
Listed Buildings Near Little Eaton
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Little Eaton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Queen’s Head Inn and Attached Coach House - 0.28 km
- Church Farmhouse - 0.4 km
- Outbuilding to South West of Number 18 - 0.42 km
- Number 2 (The Brick Barn) and Number 4 ( the Stone Barn) - 0.43 km
- The Poplars - 0.45 km
- Church of St Paul - 0.47 km
- Lychgate at Church of St Paul - 0.49 km
- Barn With Byres and Hay Lofts South East of the Elms - 0.5 km
- The Elms Farmhouse - 0.51 km
- Former Malthouse to South of the Elms - 0.52 km
- Barn With Byres to South West of the Elms - 0.53 km
- Parish Room - 0.53 km
- Clock House - 0.61 km
- The Hatherings - 0.7 km
- Breadsall Manor - 1.22 km
Little Eaton Today
Today Little Eaton lies within the administrative area of Erewash, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,391 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 Little Eaton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [Little] Eaton
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
© Eamon Curry · 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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