Temple Normanton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Temple Normanton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Temple Normanton at 15.2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Temple Normanton supported a recorded population of 9 villagers, 19 smallholders, 65 freemanmen, working 26 ploughs between them.
By 1086 Temple Normanton was worth 8 shillings, up from 6 shillings before the Conquest – a sign this community came through the Conquest without being ruined.
The survey lists 2 manors at Temple Normanton under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.
Resources Recorded at Temple Normanton (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 2d)
- Churches: 1
- Meadow: 120 acres
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 Temple Normanton 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 the northern. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the northern farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Temple Normanton.
Temple Normanton Today
Today Temple Normanton lies within the administrative area of North East Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 441 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 Temple Normanton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- North? Wingfield - 2.0 km S
- Sutton Scarsdale - 2.2 km NE
- Williamthorpe - 2.2 km SE
- Egstow - 2.8 km SW
- Lowne - 3.0 km E
- Owlcotes? - 3.0 km E
Heritage Around [Temple] Normanton
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
© Philip Thompson · 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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