Wessington in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Wessington is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 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 Wessington 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 Wessington.
Listed Buildings Near Wessington
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Wessington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Dell Farmhouse - 0.27 km
- Christ Church - 0.36 km
- Outbuilding called ‘The Chapel’ at Roadnook Farm - 0.84 km
- Barn to South-east of Roadnook Farmhouse - 0.84 km
- Outbuilding - 0.85 km
- L Shaped Range of Cowsheds 10 Metres to East of Roadnook Farmhouse - 0.85 km
- Roadnook Farmhouse - 0.88 km
- Garden Wall at Roadnook Farm - 0.91 km
- Barn to north of Amber Farmhouse - 1.11 km
- Outbuilding to North of Amber Farmhouse - 1.12 km
- Gateway and Attached Wall to North of Amber Farmhouse - 1.13 km
- Amber Farmhouse - 1.15 km
- Amber Hill Bridge - 1.26 km
- Broomhill Farmhouse - 1.27 km
- Hay Farmhouse - 1.27 km
- Amber Mill Bridge (SPC8 61) - 1.29 km
Wessington Today
Today Wessington lies within the administrative area of North East Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 757 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 Wessington on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- South? Wingfield - 2.0 km S
- Shirland - 2.2 km NE
- Ufton - 2.2 km SE
- Ogston - 2.2 km NE
- Shuckstone - 3.0 km W
- Crich - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around Wessington
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.
© Nikki Mahadevan · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · 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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