Sutton Scarsdale

Sutton Scarsdale
Sutton Scarsdale
	; View from the footpath across Wrang Plantation towards Park Farm
	Sutton Scarsdale Location within Derbyshire
Population	1,523 (2001 in Sutton cum Duckmanton)
OS grid reference	SK440686
Civil parish	Sutton cum Duckmanton ;
District	North East Derbyshire ;
Shire county	Derbyshire ;
Region	East Midlands ;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHESTERFIELD
Postcode district	S44 5
Dialling code	01246
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	North East Derbyshire ;
	List of places UK England Derbyshire 53°12′46″N1°20′33″W / 53.21265°N 1.34259°W Coordinates: 53°12′46″N1°20′33″W / 53.21265°N 1.34259°W

Last updated November 29, 2022

Sutton Scarsdale is a 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.

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]

Bess of Hardwick

Bess of Hardwick built a house, "Oldcotes" or "Owlcotes", where Arbella Stuart stayed in 1603, south of Sutton Scarsdale. The building was completely demolished.^[4]

References and notes

↑ 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".
↑ TRE in Latin is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings.
↑ Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.744
↑ Alison Wiggins, Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture (Routledge, 2017), pp. 19-20: Pamela Kettle, Oldcotes: The Last Mansion Built by Bess of Hardwick (Merton Priory, 2000).

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[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".

[tre-2] TRE in Latin is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings.

[Domesday-3] Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.744

[4] Alison Wiggins, Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture (Routledge, 2017), pp. 19-20: Pamela Kettle, Oldcotes: The Last Mansion Built by Bess of Hardwick (Merton Priory, 2000).

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