Snitterton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Snitterton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 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 name Snitterton 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 Snitterton.
Listed Buildings Near Snitterton
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Snitterton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Snitterton Hall - 0.27 km
Grade II
- Garden Walls of Snitterton Hall - 0.3 km
- Mile Stone - 0.4 km
- Snitterton Manor Farmhouse - 0.42 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Snitterton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Snitterton:
- Moated site and fishponds 300m north east of Snitterton Hall - 0.39 km
- Northern Dale lead mines - 0.8 km
- Mount Pleasant lead mines, immediately south of Wensley - 1.37 km
Snitterton Today
Today Snitterton lies within the administrative area of South Darley.
Read more about modern Snitterton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Snitterton
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.
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Poyser · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Poyser · 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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