Middle, Nether and West Handley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Middle, Nether and West Handley is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Scarsdale
- Alfreton
- Ashover
- Barlborough
- Barlow
- Beighton
- Blingsby
- Bolsover
- Boythorpe
- Bramley [Vale]
- Brimington
- Calow
- Chesterfield
- Clowne
- Dore
The Meaning of the Name
The name Middle, Nether and West Handley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Middle, Nether and West Handley.
Listed Buildings Near Middle, Nether and West Handley
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Middle, Nether and West Handley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- West Handley Hall - 0.24 km
Grade II
- Cowhouse to South West and Adjacent to Ash Lane Farmhouse - 0.33 km
- The Old Barns - 0.33 km
- Outbuilding to North West of Ash Lane Farmhouse - 0.34 km
- Ash Lane Farmhouse - 0.35 km
- Outbuilding to the East of Ash Lane Farmhouse - 0.36 km
- Springwell House - 0.99 km
- Moortop Farmhouse - 1.12 km
- Farm Outbuilding to the North of Belle Vue Farmhouse - 1.27 km
Middle, Nether and West Handley Today
Today Middle, Nether and West Handley lies within the administrative area of Unstone.
Read more about modern West Handley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Unstone - 2.0 km W
- Old Whittington - 3.2 km S
- Eckington - 3.6 km NE
- Coal Aston - 3.6 km NW
- Dronfield - 4.1 km W
- Upton - 4.1 km W
Heritage Around [Middle, Nether and West] Handley
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.
© Andrew Loughran · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andrew Loughran · 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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