Ockbrook in the Domesday Book (1086)
Ockbrook appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Morleystone
- Bradley
- Breadsall
- Breaston
- Cellesdene
- Chaddesden
- Codnor
- Crich
- Denby
- Derby
- Draycott
- Duffield
- Hallam
- Heanor
- Herdebi
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Ockbrook 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 Ockbrook.
Listed Buildings Near Ockbrook
Historic England records 29 listed buildings within about a mile of Ockbrook. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of All Saints - 0.33 km
- The Moravian Manse - 0.85 km
- The Moravian Chapel/church - 0.85 km
Grade II
- Church Farmhouse - 0.34 km
- Gate Piers and Lychgate With Attached Railings and Wall Round All Saints Churchyard - 0.37 km
- 24 The Ridings - 0.46 km
- Ockbrook House and Attached Outbuilding - 0.49 km
- 38, The Ridings - 0.49 km
- 61 and 63, Church Street - 0.49 km
- Tulip Tree House - 0.55 km
- Ockbrook and Borrowash War Memorial - 0.6 km
- The Orchard - 0.61 km
- 70, the Ridings - 0.61 km
- The Croft, Croft House and West Croft - 0.61 km
- Hillside Cottage - 0.76 km
- 5 and 7, the Settlement - 0.78 km
- 33, the Settlement - 0.78 km
- 29 and 31, the Settlement - 0.8 km
- Sundial to South of Ockbrook School - 0.82 km
- Railings to South of the Moravian Church - 0.82 km
- Sundial and Railings to South of Moravian Church - 0.84 km
- 26, the Settlement - 0.84 km
- 8, the Settlement - 0.86 km
- Ockbrook School - 0.86 km
…and 5 more listed structures in the area.
Ockbrook Today
Today Ockbrook lies within the administrative area of Ockbrook and Borrowash, and the settlement recorded a population of 7,335 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 Ockbrook on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Ockbrook
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.
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© Chris J Dixon · 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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