Mickleover in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Mickleover is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, 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 Mickleover 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 Mickleover.

Listed Buildings Near Mickleover

Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Mickleover. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of All Saints - 0.27 km
• Old Hall - 0.44 km

Grade II

• Manor Farmhouse - 0.21 km
• Mickleover War Memorial - 0.31 km
• Mickleover Manor - 0.33 km
• The Gables - 0.34 km
• Nos. 1-2 The Hollow - 0.37 km
• 11, Limes Avenue - 0.38 km
• 13-18, the Green - 0.42 km
• Gatepiers at Number 5 (Old Hall) - 0.42 km
• 4, the Hollow - 0.42 km
• 5-8, the Hollow - 0.44 km
• The Limes - 0.5 km
• Newhouse Farmhouse and attached barns - 0.78 km

Mickleover Today

Today Mickleover lies within the administrative area of City of Derby, and the settlement recorded a population of 18,000 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 Mickleover on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Littleover - 2.0 km E
• Bearwardcote - 2.2 km SW
• Burnaston - 2.8 km SW
• Radbourne - 2.8 km NW
• Mackworth - 3.2 km N
• Dalbury - 4.0 km W