Priestcliffe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Priestcliffe, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Blackwell
- Abney
- Ashford [-in-the-Water]
- Aston
- Bakewell
- Bamford
- Baslow
- Beeley
- Birchills
- Birchover
- Blackwell
- Bradwell
- Bubnell
- Burley
- Burton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Priestcliffe is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word clif, a cliff or steep slope. 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 slope’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Priestcliffe.
Listed Buildings Near Priestcliffe
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Priestcliffe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- South Viaduct - 0.83 km
Grade II
- Rose Farmhouse and Iron Railings - 0.55 km
- Milne House - 0.75 km
- Highcliffe Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.78 km
- Row of Four Lime Kilns - 0.85 km
- North Viaduct - 0.85 km
- Church of St Anne - 1.02 km
- The ‘Anglers Rest’ Public House - 1.09 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Priestcliffe
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Priestcliffe:
- Bowl barrow known as Priestcliffe Low, 200m west of Low End Farm - 0.57 km
- Round cairn 460m north of New Barn - 1.17 km
- Maury Mine and Sough - 1.24 km
- Standing cross in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels - 1.44 km
Priestcliffe Today
Today Priestcliffe lies within the administrative area of Taddington.
Read more about modern Priestcliffe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Priestcliffe
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.
© Mike Harris · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© alan fairweather · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Murray-Rust · 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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