North? Wingfield in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of North? Wingfield 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 North? Wingfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.

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

Listed Buildings Near North? Wingfield

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of North? Wingfield. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Stables at White Hart Inn - 0.81 km
• The Elms - 0.84 km
• The Homestead - 0.86 km
• St Lawrence - 0.87 km
• Old Cross - 0.88 km
• Bright Street Farmhouse - 0.88 km
• Hagg Hill House - 1.24 km
• Barn North of Hagg Hill House - 1.26 km

North? Wingfield Today

Today North? Wingfield lies within the administrative area of North East Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 6,339 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern North Wingfield on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Williamthorpe - 1.0 km E
• Egstow - 2.0 km W
• Temple Normanton - 2.0 km N
• Old Tupton - 3.0 km W
• Nether and Upper Pilsley - 3.2 km S
• Lowne - 3.6 km NE