Willington in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Willington, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Litchurch
- Allestree
- Alvaston
- Ambaston
- Arleston
- Aston [-on-Trent]
- Barrow [-upon-Trent]
- Bearwardcote
- Boulton
- Burnaston
- Chellaston
- Cottons
- Dalbury
- Egginton
- Elvaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Willington 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 Willington.
Listed Buildings Near Willington
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Willington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- The Green Man - 0.23 km
- 3 and 5, Bargate Lane - 0.29 km
- Pilsbury House - 0.3 km
- Church of St Michael - 0.31 km
- Trentside Cottage - 0.33 km
- Hall Cottages and the Hall - 0.35 km
- 44 Repton Road - 0.38 km
- Willington Bridge (Extends Into Parish of Repton) - 0.54 km
- Willington Hill Farmhouse - 0.95 km
Willington Today
Today Willington lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,279 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 Willington on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Willington
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.
© Peter Shone · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Phil Myott · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Sharon Palmer · 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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