South Wingfield, Derbyshire One Place Study
Location: South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
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South Wingfield, Derbyshire One Place Study
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Name
- South Wingfield means south grazing ground. North and South Wingfield are referenced together in the Oxford Concise Dictionary of English Place Names: "Wingfield, North, Db [Wynnefeld 1002 Wills, 1004 KCD 710, Winnefelt DB, Wynnefeld Hy 3 BM], South W~ Db [Winefeld DB, Wynnefeld 1236, Wynefeld 1242 Fees, Sutwynnefelde 1284-6 FA]. The two are not very far apart and were named from the same FELD or open land. The OE examples may refer to both or only to one of them. The first el. is OE *winn ‘meadow, pasture’. The name means ‘graz- ing-ground’,"[1]
Geography
- Continent: Europe
- Sovereign State: United Kingdom
- Country: England
- County: Derbyshire
- GPS Coordinates: 53.0956, -1.44
- Elevation: 123.0 m or 403.5 feet
History
South Wingfield is a Parish in the county of Derbyshire. It is best known for being the location of Wingfield Manor, built mid-15th c. where Mary, (Stewart) Queen of Scots was detained, off and on, by Elizabeth I of England.[2] But it was a village listed in the Domesday book ca. 1000, and is there still, with a population of 1,080 in 2021.[3]
Population
Sources
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The Concise Dictionary of English Place-names; 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 523. Accessed 11/16/2022 at Archive.org [1]
- ↑ South Wingfield is an Ancient Parish in the East Midlands of Derbyshire.
- ↑ https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmidlands/derbyshire/E63001800__south_wingfield/
- "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7S1-LXH : 28 May 2019), Thos Bradley, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
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