Owlcotes? in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Owlcotes? is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Scarsdale

• Alfreton
• Ashover
• Barlborough
• Barlow
• Beighton
• Blingsby
• Bolsover
• Boythorpe
• Bramley [Vale]
• Brimington
• Calow
• Chesterfield
• Clowne
• Dore

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Owlcotes? is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Owlcotes?.

Listed Buildings Near Owlcotes?

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Owlcotes?. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Church of All Saints - 0.44 km
• The Thatched Cottage - 0.5 km
• Owlcotes Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall - 0.69 km
• Ruins of Heath Old Church - 0.72 km
• Alcove and Attached Wall North of Owlcotes Farmhouse - 0.76 km
• High House Farmhouse - 0.9 km
• Sutton Manor - 1.23 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Owlcotes?

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Owlcotes?:

• Sutton Scarsdale Hall - 1.5 km

Owlcotes? Today

Today Owlcotes? lies within the administrative area of Heath and Holmewood, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,953 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 Heath on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Lowne - 0.0 km N
• Sutton Scarsdale - 1.4 km NW
• Bramley Vale - 2.2 km SE
• Stainsby - 2.2 km SE
• Williamthorpe - 2.8 km SW
• Blingsby - 2.8 km SE