Wallstone in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Wallstone is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Hamston

• Alsop [-en-le-Dale]
• Ashbourne
• Atlow
• Ballidon
• Bonsall
• Bradbourne
• Brassington
• Broadlowash
• Callow
• Carsington
• Cowley
• Cromford
• Elton
• Hanson [Grange]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Wallstone is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Wallstone.

Listed Buildings Near Wallstone

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Wallstone. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• South Sitch - 1.09 km

Grade II

• Wallstone Farmhouse - 0.63 km
• Station Masters House - 0.9 km
• Idridgehay Station - 0.92 km
• Carrbrook Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to the North - 0.93 km
• Holme Farmhouse - 1.04 km
• Black Swan Inn and adjoining outbuilding to east - 1.04 km
• Alton Mill - 1.04 km
• Church of St James - 1.14 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Shottle - 2.0 km E
• Kirk Ireton - 3.2 km W
• Callow - 4.2 km NW
• Wirksworth - 5.1 km N
• Hulland - 5.4 km W
• Carsington - 5.6 km NW