Stanton -by-Dale in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Stanton -by-Dale is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Morleystone
- Bradley
- Breadsall
- Breaston
- Cellesdene
- Chaddesden
- Codnor
- Crich
- Denby
- Derby
- Draycott
- Duffield
- Hallam
- Heanor
- Herdebi
The Meaning of the Name
The name Stanton -by-Dale 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 stone (OE stān). Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the stone farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Stanton -by-Dale.
Listed Buildings Near Stanton -by-Dale
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Stanton -by-Dale. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Michael and All Angels - 0.69 km
Grade II
- Stanton Hall - 0.4 km
- Village Cross - 0.53 km
- Village Pump - 0.59 km
- 16-24, Stanhope Street - 0.59 km
- 29, Stanhope Street - 0.63 km
- Middlemores Almshouses - 0.67 km
- Stanton-by-Dale War Memorial - 0.68 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Stanton -by-Dale
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Stanton -by-Dale:
- Lock up and pinfold - 1.4 km
Stanton -by-Dale Today
Today Stanton -by-Dale lies within the administrative area of Erewash, and the settlement recorded a population of 440 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 Stanton-by-Dale on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Stanton [-by-Dale]
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.
© Garth Newton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Garth Newton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Murray-Rust · 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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