Sutton Scarsdale
# Sutton Scarsdale

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.

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. Scarsdale, New York is named after the village.

## 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 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 worth forty shillings now twenty shillings.

## 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.

## 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).
