Offerton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Offerton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Blackwell
- Abney
- Ashford [-in-the-Water]
- Aston
- Bakewell
- Bamford
- Baslow
- Beeley
- Birchills
- Birchover
- Blackwell
- Bradwell
- Bubnell
- Burley
- Burton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Offerton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Offerton.
Listed Buildings Near Offerton
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Offerton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Offerton Hall - 0.46 km
Grade II
- Outbuilding to the North East of Nether House - 0.33 km
- Nether House and Attached Outbuilding - 0.37 km
- Outbuildings to the North West of Offerton Hall - 0.45 km
- Offerton House - 0.48 km
- Outbuilding to the North West of Nether Hall - 1.12 km
- Nether Hall - 1.15 km
- Garner House and Attached Barn to North East - 1.25 km
- Cliffe Cottage - 1.25 km
- Railway Viaduct - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Offerton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 8 lie within roughly a mile of Offerton:
- Cairnfield 470m south west of Offerton House - 0.94 km
- Cairnfield and ring cairn 490m south of Offerton Hall - 0.94 km
- Round cairn 680m south west of Offerton House - 1.15 km
- Two round cairns 750m south west of Offerton House - 1.22 km
- Cairn 800m WSW Of Offerton House - 1.22 km
- Round cairn 780m south west of Offerton House - 1.25 km
- Cairnfield 600m west of Highlow Hall - 1.37 km
- Cairnfield 870m north east of Lane End Farm - 1.47 km
Offerton Today
Today Offerton lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 12 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 Offerton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Nether and Upper Hurst - 1.0 km N
- Shatton - 1.4 km NW
- Hathersage - 2.0 km E
- Stoke - 2.0 km S
- Bamford - 2.2 km NW
- Abney - 2.8 km SW
Heritage Around Offerton
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.
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© J147 · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Phil Berry · 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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