Shottle in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Shottle is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Hamston
- Alsop [-en-le-Dale]
- Ashbourne
- Atlow
- Ballidon
- Bonsall
- Bradbourne
- Brassington
- Broadlowash
- Callow
- Carsington
- Cowley
- Cromford
- Elton
- Hanson [Grange]
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Shottle 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 Shottle.
Listed Buildings Near Shottle
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Shottle. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Handley Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to the West - 0.72 km
- Crowtrees Farmhouse - 1.13 km
- Carrbrook Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to the North - 1.16 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Shottle
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Shottle:
- Moated site north of Dannah Farm - 1.1 km
Shottle Today
Today Shottle lies within the administrative area of Shottle and Postern, and the settlement recorded a population of 266 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Shottle on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Wallstone - 2.0 km W
- Bradley - 4.5 km SE
- Kirk Ireton - 5.1 km W
- Milford - 5.6 km SE
- Callow - 5.8 km NW
- Wirksworth - 5.8 km NW
Heritage Around Shottle
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.
© Chris Allen · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Nikki Mahadevan · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dave Bevis · 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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