Ashover

Other current and historical names

Essorre
Hilltop

Parish/Community: Ashover
District/Borough: North East Derbyshire
County: Derbyshire
Region: East Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Other Settlement

Latitude/Longitude: 53°10'3"N 1°29'7"W
Eastings/Northings: 434500, 363500
OS Grid: SK345635
Mapcode Local: GBR 69Y.H8Z
Mapcode Global: WHDFN.4NY2

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Ashover within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Ashover in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Ashover, par., township, and vil., E. Derbyshire, 7 miles SW. of Chesterfield -- par., 11,390 ac., pop. 3312; township, 9564 ac., pop. 2276; P.O., T.O. Lace, cotton, worsted, and stocking mfrs. are carried on.

Ashover in the Domesday Book

A village in Scarsdale hundred, in the county of Derbyshire.

- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Leofric brother of Leofnoth; Leofnoth brother of Leofric
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Ralph son of Hubert
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Serlo Blund (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £4 in 1066; £1 10/- in 1086
- Households: 14 smallholders; 1 priest; 3 tributaries
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 3 men's ploughs (2 plough lands)
- Woodland: 2 leagues
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 1, value 1/2½

British Place Names

Ashover, Derbyshire

Ashover is a settlement in Derbyshire

Ashover in historic gazetteers

Ashover in the Domesday Book