The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Sandiacre, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Morleystone

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Sandiacre 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 Sandiacre.

Listed Buildings Near Sandiacre

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Sandiacre. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Giles - 0.9 km

Grade II

Bobbin Milepost to South of Number 103 at Sk 4761 3640 - 0.12 km
Dr Bland’s Almshouses - 0.14 km
Dr Bland’s Almshouses - 0.16 km
25, Town Street - 0.38 km
Offices to Springfield Mill Factory With Attached Wall and Lavatory Blocks - 0.4 km
Springfield Mill Factory and Chimney - 0.44 km
Canal Bridge at Sk 481 367 - 0.53 km
Village Lock-up and Pound - 0.7 km
Lock Keeper’s Cottage and Attached Outbuilding at Sandiacre Lock - 0.91 km
Sandiacre Lock - 0.92 km
Beech House at Sandiacre Lock - 0.92 km
Bridge at Sandiacre Lock - 0.94 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Sandiacre

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Sandiacre:

Lock up and pinfold - 0.7 km
Anglian high cross in the churchyard of St Helen’s Church - 1.57 km

Sandiacre Today

Today Sandiacre lies within the administrative area of Erewash, and the settlement recorded a population of 9,123 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 Sandiacre on Wikipedia .