South Normanton in the Domesday Book (1086)
South Normanton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Scarsdale
- Alfreton
- Ashover
- Barlborough
- Barlow
- Beighton
- Blingsby
- Bolsover
- Boythorpe
- Bramley [Vale]
- Brimington
- Calow
- Chesterfield
- Clowne
- Dore
The Meaning of the Name
The name South Normanton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent the northern. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the northern farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as South Normanton.
Listed Buildings Near South Normanton
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of South Normanton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Michael - 0.63 km
Grade II
- Glebe Junior School - 0.45 km
- Milepost at Sk 443 562 - 0.47 km
- Windmill Tower to West of St Michael’s Church - 0.67 km
- Hilltop Farmhouse - 0.83 km
Scheduled Monuments Near South Normanton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of South Normanton:
South Normanton Today
Today South Normanton lies within the administrative area of Bolsover, and the settlement recorded a population of 10,140 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 South Normanton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [South] Normanton
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.
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© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · 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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