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

Other Settlements in Walecros

The Meaning of the Name

The name Repton 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 Repton.

Listed Buildings Near Repton

Historic England records 44 listed buildings within about a mile of Repton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Repton Hall With Prior Overtons Tower, Repton School - 0.34 km
Remains of Priory Church and the Chapter Block, Repton School - 0.35 km
The Old Priory, attached walls and gate piers, Repton School - 0.38 km
Church of St Wystan - 0.42 km
Priory gateway, precinct walls, the Tithe Barn and The Lodge, Repton School - 0.43 km
Market Cross - 0.5 km

Grade II

Brook End House - 0.32 km
Brook Lynn - 0.34 km
Gate Piers to Repton School - 0.36 km
War Memorial at Repton School - 0.37 km
Pears School, Repton School - 0.38 km
Lychgate and Churchyard Wall at St Wystan’s Church - 0.45 km
No 1 Willington Road - 0.48 km
3 and 5, the Cross - 0.48 km
No 11, The Cross - 0.48 km
1, High Street - 0.49 km
Post Office - 0.5 km
The Thatched House - 0.5 km
The Croft, Bursar’s Office and Attached Gate Piers to West - 0.5 km
Gymnasium and Attached Gates, Repton School - 0.56 km
The Chapel, Repton School - 0.58 km
27-29, High Street - 0.61 km
Stone House - 0.62 km
10 Burton Road - 0.62 km

…and 20 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Repton

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

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 - 1.5 km

Repton Today

Today Repton lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,034 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Repton on Wikipedia .