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26 PART III EARLY HISTORY OF HADDON HALL BY S. RAYNER
HADDON is situated in the parish of Bakewell, and it was anciently included in the
extensive manor or lordship of Bakewell. This appears from the survey of Derbyshire
contained in the Doomsday Book, which was completed about 1086, after William the
Norman [William the Conqueror, also William I, reigned 1066-1087] had extended his
sovereign authority over the whole kingdom. The following extract from this national
record shows that Bakewell, at the period in question, was one of the royal manors.
“King Edward (the Confessor) [reigned 1042-1066] had in the manor of Bakewell 18
carucates [a carucate = 120 acres], or plough-lands, with 8 Bartons [farms] for which he
received rent. The land is estimated at 18 carucates. The King [William I] has now in
demesne [ownership], 7 carucates, with 33 Villagers, and 9 Bordars [feudal tenants].
There are 2 Priests and a Church, having under them 2 Villagers and 5 Bordars; all these
having 11 carucates. One Knight there has 16 acres of land and 2 Bordars. There is 1
Mill, at the rent of 10s 8d; and 1 Lead-work; and about 20 acres of meadow. The little
wood is one furlong in length, and one in breadth. Three carucates of this land belong to
the Church. Henry de Ferrers is assessed at 1 carucate in Haddon. The following are the
8 farms of this manor — Cronkesden-grange [in Hartington]; Burton [near Bakewell];
Oneash; Moneyash; Holmhall; Great Rowsley; Hadun [Over Haddon]; Haduna [Nether
Haddon, including Haddon Hall].”
The Manor of Bakewell was given by William I to his natural [born out of wedlock]
son William Peverell on whom he had previously bestowed very extensive domains, in
Derbyshire and other counties. As the Doomsday survey was commenced in 1081, and
William I died in September 1087, it is obvious that this donation must have occurred
during the intervening period. The individual who, through the bounty of his father thus
became one of the great barons and chief landed proprietors of the country, living at a
time when the use of surnames was becoming common (among the Normans), adopted
that of the family into which, probably after his birth, his mother had married. From the
researches of the celebrated heraldic historian and antiquary Sir William Dugdale (1605-
1686), we learn the ensuing circumstances relative to this once noble and distinguished
race of the English Baronage.
PEVERELL OF NOTTINGHAM. “The first of this name of whom I find mention is
Ranulph Peverell, who, at the time of the Conqueror’s survey, held four Lordships in
Com. Salop, six in Norfolk, nineteen in Suffolk, and thirty-five in Com. Essex. Which
Ranulph was the reputed progenitor of the several families of that name: for having
married Maud, daughter of Ingelric (founder of the Collegiate Church of St. Martins le
Grand, in the City of London), who had been a concubine to William [I] of Normandy,
not only those children which he had by her, but that very William, begotten on her by
the same Duke, before his conquest of this realm, had the name of Peverell.”