Litton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Litton, 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 Litton 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 Litton.
Listed Buildings Near Litton
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Litton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Scarsdale House Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.32 km
- Holly Cottage - 0.32 km
- Clergy Cottage - 0.33 km
- Grove House and Attached Garden Walls and Railings - 0.33 km
- Clergy House and Attached Gatepiers and Garden Wall - 0.34 km
- Litton School - 0.35 km
- Tallon Green - 0.36 km
- Red Lion Cottages and Alstonfield Cottage - 0.36 km
- Red Lion Inn - 0.36 km
- Hammerton Hall Farmhouse - 0.4 km
- Village Cross - 0.4 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Litton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Litton:
Litton Today
Today Litton lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 562 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 Litton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Tideswell - 1.0 km W
- Great and Little Hucklow - 3.0 km N
- Wormhill - 4.1 km W
- Priestcliffe - 4.2 km SW
- Taddington - 4.5 km SW
- Blackwell - 5.0 km SW
Heritage Around Litton
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 Harris · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© DAVID M GOODWIN · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© BB · 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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