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.
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” it said:
In Sutton Scarsdale Stenulf had four of land to the. Land for five ploughs. The lord has there one plough and six and one 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 worth forty shillings now twenty shillings.