Trusley? in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Trusley?, 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 Trusley? 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 Trusley?.

Listed Buildings Near Trusley?

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Trusley?. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• All Saints Church - 0.25 km

Grade II

• Home Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 0.14 km
• Lane End Cottage - 0.17 km
• Tatlow Cottage - 0.18 km
• Trusley Old Hall and attached cottage and Village Hall - 0.28 km
• Muniment Room to South of Trusley Old Hall - 0.31 km
• Ivy Close Farmhouse - 0.35 km
• The Elms - 0.67 km
• Rookhills Farmhouse - 0.72 km
• White House Farmhouse - 1.09 km
• Woodhouse Farmhouse - 1.26 km

Trusley? Today

Today Trusley? lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 54 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 Trusley on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Sutton -on-the-Hill - 1.4 km SW
• Dalbury - 1.4 km SE
• Osleston - 2.2 km NW
• Thurvaston - 2.2 km NW
• Radbourne - 3.2 km E
• Ashe - 3.2 km S