Taddington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Blackwell

The Meaning of the Name

The name Taddington 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 Taddington.

Listed Buildings Near Taddington

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Taddington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Michael - 0.56 km

Grade II

Home Farmhouse - 0.43 km
The Hall - 0.45 km
Sycamore Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.5 km
Milepost at Os 143 711 - 0.51 km
Fold Farmhouse - 0.55 km
Rose Farmhouse and Iron Railings - 0.9 km
Milepost at Os 158 714 - 1.19 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Taddington

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Taddington:

Standing cross in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels - 0.57 km
Bowl barrow known as Priestcliffe Low, 200m west of Low End Farm - 1.18 km
Maury Mine and Sough - 1.49 km
Round cairn 460m north of New Barn - 1.51 km

Taddington Today

Today Taddington lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 455 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 Taddington on Wikipedia .