Padfield and Little Padfield is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Blackwell

The Meaning of the Name

The name Padfield and Little Padfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Padfield and Little Padfield.

Listed Buildings Near Padfield and Little Padfield

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Padfield and Little Padfield. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Little Padfield Farmhouse - 0.45 km
Padfield Brook Farmhouse - 0.48 km
Lower Cross Farm (Number 107/107A) and Attached Barn - 0.59 km
Padfield - 0.63 km
Top of Th’ill Farmhouse and Attached Barn and Stable - 0.98 km
Laneside Farm - 1.17 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Padfield and Little Padfield

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Padfield and Little Padfield:

Ringwork in Castlehill Wood - 1.24 km

Padfield and Little Padfield Today

Today Padfield and Little Padfield lies within the administrative area of High Peak, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,796 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 Padfield on Wikipedia .