Sutton Scarsdale

Sutton Scarsdale is a very small village in Derbyshire, England. It is in the North East Derbyshire district. It is very close to the M1 motorway. It is in the civil parish of Sutton cum Duckmanton.

Sutton Scarsdale

View from the footpath across Wrang Plantation towards Park Farm
Sutton Scarsdale
Location within Derbyshire
Population1,523 (2001 in Sutton cum Duckmanton)
OS grid referenceSK440686
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCHESTERFIELD
Postcode districtS44 5
Dialling code01246
PoliceDerbyshire
FireDerbyshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

The settlement is notable for a large, ruined former stately home called Sutton Scarsdale Hall.

Near to the settlement are the villages of Heath, Temple Normanton and Arkwright Town.

Early history

This manor was in the Domesday book in 1086. Under the title of “The lands of Roger de Poitou”[1] it said:

In Sutton Scarsdale Stenulf had four carucates of land to the geld. Land for five ploughs. The lord has there one plough and six villans and one bordar with one plough, There is a mill rendering two shillings and eight acres of meadow. Woodland pasture half a league long and three furlongs broad. TRE[2] worth forty shillings now twenty shillings.[3]

References and notes
  1. Roger de Poitou had a number of manors given to him by the king. Besides Sutton Scarsdale he had Stainsby, South Wingfield, Beighton and Blingsby Gate (sic) in Derbyshire. Although a comment is added "Roger de Poitou had these lands but now they are in the King's hand".
  2. TRE in Latin is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings.
  3. Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.744

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