Weston Underwood, Derbyshire


Weston Underwood is an agricultural village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire. The population of the Civil Parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 374. It is just over five miles from Derby. Nearby places are Mugginton, Kedleston Hall and Carsington Water.

History

Weston Underwood is mentioned in the Domesday Book.
In 1086, the book notes that

"In Weston Underwood, Wolfsige had 1 of land to the. There is land for one plough. There is now one ploughs in demesne and six and six have two ploughs.Therebare six acres of pasture and woodland pasture a league long and half a league broad. Value was 40 shillings now twenty shillings. Gulbert holds it for Ralph de Buron."