Staveley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Staveley, 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 Staveley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Staveley.
Listed Buildings Near Staveley
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Staveley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St John the Baptist - 0.47 km
Grade II
- Ebenezer Row 1-11, 11A and 15-23 - 0.38 km
- Staveley War Memorial - 0.41 km
- 7 and 8, Church Street - 0.42 km
- 34 and 36, High Street - 0.44 km
- 38 and 40, High Street - 0.45 km
- 42 and 44, High Street - 0.45 km
- Churchyard Cross - 0.46 km
- The Chantry - 0.48 km
- The School - 0.49 km
- Staveley Hall (UDC Offices) - 0.49 km
- Former stables and coach house of Staveley Hall - 0.53 km
- 11, Netherthorpe - 0.56 km
- Garden Walls of Staveley Hall - 0.57 km
- Netherthorpe School - 0.59 km
Staveley Today
Today Staveley lies within the administrative area of Chesterfield, and the settlement recorded a population of 18,428 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 Staveley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Brimington - 3.2 km W
- Duckmanton and Long Duckmanton - 3.2 km S
- Calow - 4.2 km SW
- Tapton - 4.5 km SW
- Old Whittington - 5.0 km W
- Barlborough - 5.0 km NE
Heritage Around Staveley
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.
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Michael Patterson · 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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