Sutton Scarsdale in the Domesday Book (1086)
Sutton Scarsdale is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 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 Sutton Scarsdale 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 Sutton Scarsdale.
Listed Buildings Near Sutton Scarsdale
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Sutton Scarsdale. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Sutton Scarsdale Hall - 0.74 km
Grade II*
- Church of St Mary - 0.73 km
Grade II
- Garden Walls and Gate Piers at Sutton Scarsdale Country Club - 0.46 km
- Ice House 25 Yards North West of Hall Farmhouse - 0.55 km
- Hall Farm Cottages Stables and Coach Houses Sutton Hall Stables the Stables Willow Court - 0.57 km
- Alcove and Attached Wall North of Owlcotes Farmhouse - 0.67 km
- The Old Priory - 0.7 km
- Owlcotes Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall - 0.75 km
- Garden Walls and Attached Ha Ha at Sutton Scarsdale Hall - 0.84 km
- Sutton Manor - 0.91 km
- High House Farmhouse - 0.93 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Sutton Scarsdale
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Sutton Scarsdale:
- Sutton Scarsdale Hall - 0.78 km
Sutton Scarsdale Today
Today Sutton Scarsdale lies within the administrative area of Sutton cum Duckmanton, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,523 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 Sutton Scarsdale on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Lowne - 1.4 km SE
- Owlcotes? - 1.4 km SE
- Temple Normanton - 2.2 km SW
- Duckmanton and Long Duckmanton - 3.2 km N
- Williamthorpe - 3.2 km S
- Bramley Vale - 3.6 km SE
Heritage Around Sutton [Scarsdale]
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
© Philip Thompson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · 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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