The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Mosborough, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Mosborough at 83 carucates of taxable land.

Most significantly, Mosborough is recorded as waste in 1086 - land rendered uninhabitable and valueless. Before the Conquest, the settlement had been assessed at 40 shillings; by 1086 that value had collapsed entirely. This pattern - prosperity before 1066, devastation by 1086 - is the unmistakable signature of the Harrying of the North , William I’s campaign of systematic destruction across Yorkshire in 1069–70.

The survey lists 2 manors at Mosborough under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Other Settlements in Scarsdale

The Meaning of the Name

The name Mosborough is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word burh, a fortified place. 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 stronghold’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Mosborough.

Listed Buildings Near Mosborough

Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Mosborough. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II