Smithycote in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Smithycote, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Morleystone
- Bradley
- Breadsall
- Breaston
- Cellesdene
- Chaddesden
- Codnor
- Crich
- Denby
- Derby
- Draycott
- Duffield
- Hallam
- Heanor
- Herdebi
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Smithycote 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 Smithycote.
Scheduled Monuments Near Smithycote
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Smithycote:
- Codnor Castle - 1.56 km
Smithycote Today
Today Smithycote lies within the administrative area of Codnor.
Read more about modern Woodlinkin on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Smithycote
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.
© peter skrobacz · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Rob Bradford · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · 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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