Littleover in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Littleover, 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 origin of the name Littleover is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Littleover.
Listed Buildings Near Littleover
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Littleover. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Ye Olde Cottage - 0.59 km
- 45, Church Street - 0.6 km
- Horse Trough to South West of Ye Olde Cottage - 0.6 km
- Church of St Peter - 0.7 km
- 11 and 15, Shepherd Street - 0.71 km
- 19, Shepherd Street - 0.72 km
- 17, Shepherd Street - 0.72 km
- Littleover War Memorial - 0.75 km
- 15, Normanton Lane - 0.76 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Littleover
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Littleover:
Littleover Today
Today Littleover lies within the administrative area of City of Derby, and the settlement recorded a population of 23,958 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Littleover on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Littleover
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.
© mike smith · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© J147 · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Jerry Evans · 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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