Potlocks in the Domesday Book (1086)

Potlocks appears in the Domesday Book 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 origin of the name Potlocks 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 Potlocks.

Listed Buildings Near Potlocks

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

Grade I

• Church of St Andrew - 1.14 km

Grade II

• Grange Farmhouse - 1.09 km
• The Old School House - 1.1 km
• Wall and Attached Outbuilding South of Twyford Church - 1.11 km
• Twyford Hall - 1.16 km
• Range of Outbuildings to North of Twyford Hall - 1.16 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Potlocks

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

• Cursus and mini henges, of Neolithic date, round barrows of Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date, and settlements, enclosures and fields of late Iron Age/Romano-British date, immediately East of Willington either side of the A5132 - 0.38 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Twyford - 1.0 km E
• Repton - 1.4 km SW
• Willington - 2.0 km W
• Stenson - 2.2 km NE
• Findern - 2.2 km NW
• Milton - 2.2 km SE