Wormhill in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Wormhill is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Blackwell
- Abney
- Ashford [-in-the-Water]
- Aston
- Bakewell
- Bamford
- Baslow
- Beeley
- Birchills
- Birchover
- Blackwell
- Bradwell
- Bubnell
- Burley
- Burton
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Wormhill 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 Wormhill.
Listed Buildings Near Wormhill
Historic England records 24 listed buildings within about a mile of Wormhill. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Margaret - 0.32 km
- Wormhill Hall - 0.42 km
Grade II
- Cottage to the North East of the Vicarage - 0.26 km
- The Vicarage - 0.28 km
- Knotlow Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 0.29 km
- Barn to South South East of Knotlow Farmhouse - 0.3 km
- Outbuilding to the South South East of House to the East of Bateman’s Farm (Item 5/64) - 0.3 km
- House to the East of Bateman’s Farm - 0.3 km
- Elm Tree House - 0.3 km
- Outbuilding to the South West of House to the East of Batemans Farm (Item 5/64) - 0.31 km
- Gate Piers and Boundary Walling to St Margaret’s Churchyard - 0.32 km
- Former Village Cross in St Margaret’s Churchyard - 0.34 km
- The Brindley Memorial Fountain - 0.38 km
- Two Storey Range to the North West Of, and Attached to Wormhill Hall - 0.41 km
- Stables and Cottage to the North West of Wormhill Hall - 0.41 km
- Old Hall Farmhouse - 0.44 km
- Gate Piers and Boundary Walling to the West of Wormhill Hall - 0.46 km
- Barn to the North West of Old Hall Farmhouse - 0.47 km
- Chapelsteads Farmhouse - 0.5 km
- Barn to the West of Old Hall Farmhouse - 0.5 km
- Outer Gate Piers at Wormhill Hall - 0.53 km
- Outbuilding to the South of Chapelsteads Farmhouse - 0.55 km
- Hassop Farmhouse - 0.58 km
- Dakin Farmhouse - 1.03 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Wormhill
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Wormhill:
- Wind Low bowl barrow and standing cross - 1.35 km
Wormhill Today
Today Wormhill lies within the administrative area of High Peak, and the settlement recorded a population of 958 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 Wormhill on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Blackwell - 2.0 km S
- Priestcliffe - 2.2 km SE
- Tideswell - 3.2 km E
- Taddington - 3.6 km SE
- Litton - 4.1 km E
- Great and Little Hucklow - 5.6 km NE
Heritage Around Wormhill
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.
© Mike Harris · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Murray-Rust · 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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