Lullington is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
in the district of
South Derbyshire
South Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The population of the local authority at the 2011 Census was 94,611. It contains a third of the National Forest, and the council offices are in Swadlincote. The district a ...
, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 121. It has an All Saints' Church, a village hall and a pub, the Colvile Arms (
Charles Robert Colvile
Charles Robert Colvile (30 March 1815 – 8 March 1886) was an English Peelite and Liberal politician who represented the constituency of South Derbyshire.
Colvile was the son of Sir Charles Colvile and his wife Harriet Anne Bonell.
Colvile bec ...
was living at Lullington Hall in the 1850s).
Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May 1891) p.249
Accessed June 2007 In 1850, it had a school that was designed to take fifty children.
Together with neighbouring Netherseal
Netherseal (or 'Netherseale') is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire,OS Explorer Map 245: The National Forest :(1:25 000) : , it is the southernmost village in Derbyshire.
History
Lullington is mentioned in the Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
where it is then spelt ''Lullitune''. The book says[''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.754] under the title of "The lands of the King's Thegns
In Anglo-Saxon England, thegns were aristocratic landowners of the second rank, below the ealdormen who governed large areas of England. The term was also used in early medieval Scandinavia for a class of retainers. In medieval Scotland, there w ...
":[The Theyns held a number of Derbyshire manors given to them by the ]King
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
. These included obviously Lullington, but also included lands in Coal Aston
Coal Aston is a village in the county of Derbyshire, in England. It is by the town of Dronfield.
Geography
Coal Aston sits on a ridge overlooking Sheffield and Dronfield. To the south there is Frith Wood, which is made up of mixed woodland ric ...
, Sandiacre
Sandiacre is a town and civil parish in the borough of Erewash in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England adjoining the border with Nottinghamshire. The population of the town was 8,889 at the 2011 Census.
The name Sandiacre is usua ...
, Risley and less than one bovate in Ingleby.In Lullington Auti had five carucates
The carucate or carrucate ( lat-med, carrūcāta or ) was a medieval unit of land area approximating the land a plough team of eight oxen could till in a single annual season. It was known by different regional names and fell under different forms ...
of land to the geld
Geld may refer to:
* Gelding, equine castration
* Danegeld
Danegeld (; "Danish tax", literally "Dane yield" or tribute) was a tax raised to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was call ...
. There is land for five ploughs. There now Edward has of the king 21 villans and three bordars
Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which develop ...
having four ploughs. There is a priest and one mill rendering 6s 8d (33p) and twelve acres of meadow. TRE[TRE in ]Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings nrf, Batâle dé Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William the Conqueror, William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godw ...
. as now worth four pounds."
See also
* Listed buildings in Lullington, Derbyshire
References
External links
Genuki pages for Lullington
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Villages in Derbyshire
Civil parishes in Derbyshire
South Derbyshire District