Osmaston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Osmaston is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, 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 Osmaston 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 Osmaston.
Listed Buildings Near Osmaston
Historic England records 22 listed buildings within about a mile of Osmaston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Martin - 0.65 km
Grade II
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.48 km
- Eastside Cottages - 0.49 km
- Outbuilding 5 Yards South East of Eastside Cottages - 0.49 km
- Outbuilding 5 Yards North East of Eastside Cottages - 0.5 km
- Stone Cottages - 0.51 km
- Elm Tree Cottage - 0.51 km
- Park View Cottage - 0.54 km
- North Lodge and Attached Gateway at Osmaston Park - 0.54 km
- Osmaston Primary School and Attached House - 0.58 km
- War Memorial South West of Church of St Martin - 0.61 km
- Copse Hill - 0.62 km
- Stud House - 0.69 km
- Tower and Attached Walls Forming Enclosure to Kitchen Gardens to Osmaston Manor - 0.81 km
- Laundry Cottage - 0.98 km
- Terracing, Steps, Balustrades and Footbridge to Gardens of Osmaston Manor - 1.0 km
- Stables at Home Farm - 1.1 km
- Wyaston Grove - 1.23 km
- Osmaston Park Cottage - 1.23 km
- Small Boat House on Main Lake in Osmaston Park - 1.23 km
- Large Boat House on Main Lake in Osmaston Park - 1.23 km
- Thatched Cottage - 1.25 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Osmaston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Osmaston:
- Osmaston Fields bowl barrow, south - 1.08 km
- Wyaston hlaew - 1.53 km
Osmaston Today
Today Osmaston lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 162 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 Osmaston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Yeldersley - 1.4 km NE
- Edlaston - 1.4 km SW
- Wyaston - 1.4 km SW
- Shirley - 2.8 km SE
- Fenton - 3.0 km N
- Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston - 3.0 km N
Heritage Around Osmaston
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.
© David Stowell · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Eirian Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Eirian Evans · 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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