Wingerworth in the Domesday Book (1086)
Wingerworth is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 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 Wingerworth is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word worð, an enclosure or homestead. 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 enclosure’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Wingerworth.
Listed Buildings Near Wingerworth
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Wingerworth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of All Saints - 0.28 km
Grade II
- Estate House, Cedar End and North Side - 0.24 km
- The Yews, The Hollies, and East View - 0.25 km
- Pair of gate piers and linking wall to the west of Estate House, Cedar End and North Side (remaining south wing of Wingerworth Hall) - 0.27 km
- Milepost at Sk 388 674 - 0.3 km
- The Hunloke Arms Inn - 0.31 km
- 1, Hockley Lane - 0.46 km
- Birdholme Farmhouse - 1.02 km
- Range of Outbuildings to the North of Birdholme Farmhouse - 1.05 km
- 35, New Road - 1.2 km
- 37, New Road - 1.2 km
- Entrance Gatepiers and Attached Walls Adjacent to Nos 35 and 37 - 1.2 km
- 238,240, Longedge Lane - 1.23 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Wingerworth
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Wingerworth:
Wingerworth Today
Today Wingerworth lies within the administrative area of North East Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 7,351 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 Wingerworth on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Greyhirst - 0.0 km N
- Old Tupton - 2.0 km S
- Boythorpe - 2.2 km NW
- Egstow - 2.2 km SE
- Temple Normanton - 3.0 km E
- Walton - 3.6 km NW
Heritage Around Wingerworth
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.
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris Allen · 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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