Rosliston in the Domesday Book (1086)

Rosliston is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Walecros in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Walecros

• Appleby [Magna]
• Bolun
• Bretby
• Caldwell
• Catton
• Coton [-in-the-Elms]
• Drakelowe
• Foremark
• Hartshorne
• Hearthcote
• Ingleby
• Lullington
• Melbourne
• Milton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Rosliston 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 Rosliston.

Listed Buildings Near Rosliston

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

Grade II*

• Church of St Mary - 0.44 km
• Cauldwell Hall - 1.16 km

Grade II

• Church of St Mary - 1.07 km
• Church of St Giles - 1.09 km
• Manor Farmhouse - 1.22 km
• Priory Farmhouse - 1.28 km

Rosliston Today

Today Rosliston lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 684 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 Rosliston on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Coton -in-the-Elms - 1.0 km S
• Caldwell - 1.4 km NE
• Linton - 3.0 km E
• Lullington - 3.0 km S
• Walton -on-Trent - 3.6 km NW
• Drakelowe - 4.0 km N