Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston in the Domesday Book (1086)
Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Appletree
- Alkmonton
- Ashe
- Aston
- Barton [Blount]
- Bentley
- Boylestone
- Bradley
- Brailsford
- Bupton
- Clifton
- Doveridge
- Eaton [Dovedale]
- Edlaston
- Ednaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston.
Listed Buildings Near Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Gate Farmhouse - 0.3 km
- Sturston Hall - 0.63 km
- Old Tollhouse - 1.17 km
- The Grove - 1.17 km
- Ox Close Farmhouse - 1.19 km
- The Green Hall - 1.27 km
- Green Hall Cottage and Outbuilding to Green Hall - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston:
Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston Today
Today Sturston Hall and Nether Sturston lies within the administrative area of Offcote and Underwood.
Read more about modern Sturston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Sturston [Hall] and [Nether] Sturston
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.
© Eirian Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Eirian Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Stowell · 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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