Stainsby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Stainsby 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 Stainsby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent stone (ON steinn). Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the stone farmstead’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Stainsby.
Listed Buildings Near Stainsby
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Stainsby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St John the Baptist - 1.16 km
Grade II
- Ault Hucknall War Memorial - 0.14 km
- Stainsby Mill - 0.15 km
- The Grange - 1.04 km
- Chest Tomb 10 Metres South West of Church of St John the Baptist - 1.15 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Stainsby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Stainsby:
Stainsby Today
Today Stainsby lies within the administrative area of Ault Hucknall.
Read more about modern Stainsby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Stainsby
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 Kochut · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Tony Bacon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Walker · 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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