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 Litchurch in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Litchurch
- Allestree
- Alvaston
- Ambaston
- Arleston
- Aston [-on-Trent]
- Barrow [-upon-Trent]
- Bearwardcote
- Boulton
- Burnaston
- Chellaston
- Cottons
- Dalbury
- Egginton
- Elvaston
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 5 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
- Commercial Block at the Rolls-Royce Main Works Site - 0.23 km
- Derby Conference Centre - 0.97 km
- Church of St Osmund - 1.03 km
- St Osmunds Vicarage. St Osmunds House - 1.04 km
- Statue of Sir F H Royce - 1.15 km
Osmaston Today
Today Osmaston lies within the administrative area of City of Derby, and the settlement recorded a population of 7,000 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 Osmaston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
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.
© Tom Wosik · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris J Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© 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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