Osleston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Osleston, entered under the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Appletree
- Alkmonton
- Ashe
- Aston
- Barton [Blount]
- Bentley
- Boylestone
- Bradley
- Brailsford
- Bupton
- Clifton
- Doveridge
- Eaton [Dovedale]
- Edlaston
- Ednaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Osleston 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 Osleston.
Listed Buildings Near Osleston
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Osleston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Osleston Hall - 0.37 km
- Well House to east of Butt House - 0.42 km
- Osleston Hall Cottage and attached outbuilding - 0.48 km
- Christ Church - 0.83 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Osleston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Osleston:
- Shrunken medieval village and moated site at Thurvaston - 0.41 km
- Sharrow Hall moated site and associated road, driveway, dovecote, enclosures and ridge and furrow - 1.1 km
- Lower Thurvaston medieval settlement, including part of the open field system - 1.53 km
Osleston Today
Today Osleston lies within the administrative area of Osleston and Thurvaston, and the settlement recorded a population of 267 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 Osleston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Thurvaston - 0.0 km N
- Bupton - 2.0 km W
- Trusley? - 2.2 km SE
- Hollington - 2.8 km NW
- Sutton -on-the-Hill - 3.0 km S
- Dalbury - 3.6 km SE
Heritage Around Osleston
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.
© John Poyser · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Barr · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Graham Hogg · 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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