Soham in the Domesday Book (1086)
Soham appears in the Domesday Book 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 name Soham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead 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 homestead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Soham.
Listed Buildings Near Soham
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Soham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Gate to West of Abbots Grove - 0.12 km
- Abbots Grove - 0.14 km
- Lilac Cottage - 0.71 km
- Hall Farmhouse and Attached Wall and Gates - 0.71 km
- Church of St Michael - 0.8 km
- Earl Sterndale School - 0.83 km
- Glutton Bridge - 1.22 km
- Glutton Grange and Adjoining Barn - 1.27 km
- Castle Cottage - 1.3 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Soham
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Soham:
- Fox Hole Cave - 0.47 km
Soham Today
Today Soham lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 354 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 Hartington Middle Quarter on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Soham
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.
© Eirian Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Barr · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dave Dunford · 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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