A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



shifting as this change would imply to have taken place. That a manor 

 could in course of time come to take upon itself another name is shown 

 in the case of the great manor of ' Bubedene,' which was for many years 

 a crux to Derbyshire topographers. There is no doubt that it represents 

 the modern village of Longford, though Bupton, the representative of the 

 Domesday name, has now shrunk to cover a few cottages at the east end 

 of the village. 



Another vanished Derbyshire place is the ' Herdebi,' which denoted 

 part of the manor of Duffield and also an independent manor on the fief 

 of Ralf de Burun. By analogy with the transformation of similar names in 

 other counties l ' Herdebi ' ought at the present day to appear as Harby. 

 Local research might perhaps discover a ' Harby ' in the neighbourhood 

 of Coxbench and Kilbourne which would suit the conditions required. 



The first and last pages of the Derbyshire Survey present special 

 difficulties to the topographical investigator. In addition to the imperfect 

 Ravenes ... it has proved impossible to identify ' Padinc ' or ' Upetun,' 

 while ' Greherst ' can only be recovered from the Wingerworth Estate 

 map, and ' Cotes ' from the Darley parish map, neither name appearing in 

 the 25~in. Ordnance Survey. The name 'Padinc' should be interesting as 

 an instance of that mysterious 'ing' termination about which so much 

 controversy has arisen, only one other example of this termination occur- 

 ing (at Dinting) in the county survey. The last page of our record 

 contains the entries of two manors, ' Uluritune ' and ' Mers,' the position 

 of which is still insoluble. The special difficulty here is that the account 

 of the land of the king's thegns is drawn up seemingly without much 

 regard to geographical considerations. Thus Edingale and Lullington, 

 in the extreme south of the county, are wedged in the Survey between 

 Clowne and Ilkeston. Hence we have no clue as to the position of * Mers ' 

 and ' Uluritune,' which names have no modern representatives. 



One last point may be mentioned here, only, however, to be referred 

 to local investigation. It is usual in this series to give some account 

 of the county hundreds as shown in Domesday and their connexion with 

 those of later times. In Derbyshire this has proved impossible for 

 a double reason. We have seen that in this county Domesday in its 

 rub ri cation gives no guide to the number or position of the several 

 wapentakes into which the shire was divided, so that any inquiry into 

 this question would have to start at the other end from a consideration of 

 the modern local divisions of the county. But the modern wapentakes of 

 Derbyshire are extraordinarily discrete ; so much so that it would be quite 

 hopeless to attempt to connect them with their Domesday representatives 

 without a minute investigation of the mediaeval geography of the shire. 

 In any case the gap between Domesday and the thirteenth century, when 

 local records become numerous and full, would place serious difficulties in 

 the way of this investigation, and the only prospect of tracing the history 

 of the Derbyshire wapentakes lies in an inquiry proceeding 'from 

 the known to the unknown.' 



1 e.g. Notts and Leic. 

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