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[2] worth forty shillings now twenty shillings.[3]
Sutton Scarsdale Hall was built as a family seat for the fourth Earl of Scarsdale. It is now an elaborate ruin managed by English Heritage. Some of the interior fixtures now reside in the United States, at the Philadelphia Museum. Another family seat was Kirk Hallam Hall, Derbyshire.
↑Roger de Poitou had a number of manors given to him by the king, William the Conqueror. 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".
↑Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN0-14-143994-7 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).
