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

Other Settlements in Scarsdale

The Meaning of the Name

The name Whitwell is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wella, a spring or stream. 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 spring’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Whitwell

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

Grade I

Church of St Lawrence - 0.36 km

Grade II*

Whitwell Hall - 0.45 km

Grade II

The Old Manor House - 0.3 km
The Old George Inn - 0.34 km
44, High Street - 0.36 km
The Old Rectory - 0.36 km
Village Pump - 0.42 km
War Memorial - 0.44 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Whitwell

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Whitwell:

Ash Tree Cave - 1.16 km

Whitwell Today

Today Whitwell lies within the administrative area of Bolsover, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,832 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 Whitwell on Wikipedia .