Description
Sturston
Sturston, Derbyshire
Sturston, in the Appletree Hundred of Derbyshire, comes from the Old Norse male personal name Stýrr and the Old English element tun ‘farm, settlement’. It is thus a hybrid name.
The Domesday Book mentions Sturston Hall as one of two manors held by Ulfkil ‘Ulfkell’ and Wudia ‘Wodi’, each manor being of half a carucate (a Danish land measure) each. Parts of the parish were transferred to Bradley and Offcote and Underwood and the rest to Ashbourne in 1934.
Ascribed Culture
Collection
- Viking Names
Keywords
- Derbyshire, hybrid name, place-name
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References
Ann Williams and G.H. Martin eds The Domeday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin Books, (2002), p. 747.
Kenneth Cameron, The Place-Names of Derbyshire III. English Place-Name Society Volume XXIX (1959), pp. 608-9.