Rodsley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Rodsley, entered under the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Appletree
- Alkmonton
- Ashe
- Aston
- Barton [Blount]
- Bentley
- Boylestone
- Bradley
- Brailsford
- Bupton
- Clifton
- Doveridge
- Eaton [Dovedale]
- Edlaston
- Ednaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Rodsley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Rodsley.
Listed Buildings Near Rodsley
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Rodsley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Rodsley House - 0.46 km
- Bay Tree Farmhouse and Adjacent Pump - 0.46 km
- Corner Farmhouse - 0.51 km
- Barn to West of Corner Farmhouse - 0.52 km
- Shirley Mill Farmhouse - 0.82 km
- Rodsleywood - 1.0 km
- Yew Tree Cottage - 1.23 km
Rodsley Today
Today Rodsley lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 102 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 Rodsley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Rodsley
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.
© David Stowell · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dave Dunford · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris Morgan · 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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