Old Tupton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Scarsdale

The Meaning of the Name

The name Old Tupton 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 Old Tupton.

Listed Buildings Near Old Tupton

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Old Tupton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Milepost - 0.54 km
Pear Tree Farmhouse - 0.54 km
Woodthorpe Hall and Woodthorpe Hall Cottage - 0.59 km
Egstow Hall - 0.65 km
Barn and attached outbuildings at Egstow Hall - 0.68 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Old Tupton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Old Tupton:

Old Tupton Today

Today Old Tupton lies within the administrative area of Tupton, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,794 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 Old Tupton on Wikipedia .