The settlement of Normanton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Normanton at 4 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Normanton supported a recorded population of 13 villagers, 7 smallholders, working 8 ploughs between them.

The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Normanton was worth 4 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 2 shillings – a fall of 50%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

Resources Recorded at Normanton (1086)

Mills: 2 mills (valued at 8d)

Other Settlements in Litchurch

The Meaning of the Name

The name Normanton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent the northern. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the northern farmstead’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Normanton

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Normanton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II