The settlement of Spondon is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Morleystone

The Meaning of the Name

The name Spondon is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word dūn, a hill. 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 hill’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Spondon.

Listed Buildings Near Spondon

Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Spondon. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

The Homestead with gatepiers - 0.63 km

Grade II*

Pair of Gateways Leading to Spondon School (Upper House) and Adult Centre - 0.64 km

Grade II

Vicarage - 0.49 km
Church of St Werburgh - 0.5 km
The Old Farm and Numbers 31-35 - 0.54 km
25, Park Road - 0.62 km
The Grange - 0.62 km
Prospect House - 0.62 km
Malt Shovel Inn Public House - 0.63 km
Longdon’s Row - 0.63 km
Holly House - 0.64 km
Former Coach House of the Homestead - 0.66 km
44, Sitwell Street - 0.68 km
Barrows Almshouses - 0.81 km
Bowes House - 0.85 km
The Old School - 0.85 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Spondon

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Spondon:

Anglo-Scandinavian high cross shaft in the churchyard of St Werburgh’s Church, Spondon - 0.5 km

Spondon Today

Today Spondon lies within the administrative area of City of Derby, and the settlement recorded a population of 12,377 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 Spondon on Wikipedia .