Newbold and Upper Newbold appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Newbold and Upper Newbold at 3 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Newbold and Upper Newbold supported a recorded population of 12 villagers, 2 smallholders, 8 slaves, working 5 ploughs between them.

The survey records Newbold and Upper Newbold’s value at 3 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Newbold and Upper Newbold (1086)

Cattle: 13
Pigs: 17
Sheep: 155
Horses (cobs): 1
Meadow: 10 acres
Woodland: 1 * 1 leagues

Other Settlements in Scarsdale

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Newbold and Upper Newbold 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 Newbold and Upper Newbold.

Listed Buildings Near Newbold and Upper Newbold

Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Newbold and Upper Newbold. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Cutthorpe Hall - 1.2 km

Grade II

Fields Farmhouse - 0.19 km
Newbold Fields - 0.57 km
Cowsheds to North of Holme Hall Farmhouse - 1.03 km
Holme Hall Farmhouse - 1.07 km
The Old House - 1.15 km
Farm Outbuilding to the South of Hall Farmhouse - 1.16 km
The Old Barracks - 1.16 km
Range of Farm Outbuildings to the North and North West of Cutthorpe Hall - 1.18 km
The Dower House - 1.19 km
Garden Walls and Gatepiers to South East of Cutthorpe Hall - 1.2 km
Dunston Grange Farmhouse - 1.2 km

Newbold and Upper Newbold Today

Today Newbold and Upper Newbold lies within the administrative area of Chesterfield, and the settlement recorded a population of 7,962 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 Newbold on Wikipedia .