The 1086 Domesday record shows Alkmonton (within the hundred of Appletree, the administrative unit covering this part of Derbyshire Dales) was a moderately sized rural settlement with 15 recorded households, held under the Norman tenant-in-chief Henry de Ferrers — one of the most powerful Domesday landholders in Derbyshire — with Ralph of Bagpuize as the immediate lord. Crucially, the Anglo-Saxon lord named in 1066 was Wulfgeat of Alkmonton, an identifiable pre-Conquest English thegn, and the estate had declined in value from 60 shillings (3 pounds) at the time of King Edward the Confessor to 40 shillings (2 pounds) by 1086, suggesting some disruption following the Norman Conquest. No Anglo-Saxon charter specifically naming Alkmonton CP was located in the Electronic Sawyer or elsewhere, consistent with the settlement's name deriving from the Old English personal name *Ealhmund* (meaning "Ealhmund's settlement/tun") rather than featuring in surviving pre-Conquest documentary records.

The Bakepuize family, prominent Norman settlers in post-Conquest Derbyshire, held Alkmonton as part of their considerable landholdings within the Hundred of Appletree. Their establishment of a leper hospital at Alkmonton in the medieval period indicates the settlement's importance as a center of religious and charitable patronage, marking it as a place of some significance in the manorial landscape of medieval Derbyshire.

Alkmonton CP contained a medieval chapel dedicated to St Nicholas, which formed the spiritual centre of the now-deserted medieval village; its Norman font, recovered from a field in 1844, survives in the Victorian St John's Church. The chapel and an associated hospital were founded in 1474 by Lord Mountjoy but suppressed in the reign of Edward VI, and Alkmonton was ecclesiastically a chapelry subordinate to the parish of Longford until the 19th century. No specific Taxatio Ecclesiastica (1291) or Valor Ecclesiasticus (1535) entry naming Alkmonton was accessible in the open web results, likely because its chapel fell below the taxable threshold or was absorbed within Longford parish in those surveys.

The monument preserves exceptional archaeological remains spanning from the medieval period onwards, including a ridge-and-furrow open field system, settlement earthworks, and a well-preserved decoy pond. The combined evidence from archaeological excavation, historical documentation, and aerial photography provides detailed insight into the settlement's structure, prosperity, and eventual abandonment.

This HER entry confirms that the manor of Alkmonton (recorded in Domesday Book as "Alchmentune") was held under Henry de Ferrers in 1086, passed to the Bakepuze family by the reign of Edward I, and subsequently to the Blounts — providing a clear line of medieval manorial descent for the area now known as Alkmonton CP. It also establishes that by 1334 the settlement was a substantial village with a notable tax quota, now surviving only as earthworks of a deserted medieval village (a Scheduled Monument), with physical evidence including street and house remains, medieval pottery, and the site of a chapel whose Norman font was later removed to the modern parish church of St John's.

This passage from a Victorian county history records that the Blount family held Alkmonton as one of their manors within the Hundred of Appletree, Derbyshire, during the fourteenth century — placing Alkmonton CP firmly within the feudal landholding context of that hundred. The text also confirms that Alkmonton was grouped with neighbouring settlements including Hungry Bentley, Barton, Hazelwood, and Sapperton under the same lordship. This is directly relevant to the manorial and administrative history of Alkmonton CP and its surrounding estate in what is now the Derbyshire Dales district.

This VCH passage reveals that Alkmonton, as a township within Longford parish (Appletree Hundred, Derbyshire), was the site of a leper hospital of St. Leonard founded c.1100 by Robert de Bakepuze, lord of the neighbouring estate of Barton Blount. The hospital passed through the Blount family, was refounded in 1406 by Dame Sancha de Ayala and substantially re-endowed in 1474 by Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoy, who transformed it from a leper house into an almshouse for aged servants, with provision for seven poor men and a chapel of St. Nicholas at Alkmonton itself. The entry also confirms that Alkmonton and the adjacent township of Hungry Bentley both fell within the lordship associated with Appletree Hundred in Derbyshire.

This record documents a Romano-British ceramic find (a rim fragment of Derbyshire ware) recovered from the deserted medieval village site of Alkmonton in 1957. The finding indicates Roman-period activity in the parish, though the fragment is a minor incidental find rather than evidence of a major Romano-British settlement. The record also confirms the medieval settlement site north-east of Alkmonton Old Hall Farm and provides Domesday Book evidence for the manor's Anglo-Saxon foundation.

This is an archaeological watching brief and evaluation conducted at St John's Church in Alkmonton, Derbyshire, supervised by Archaeological Research Services Ltd. The project aimed to document archaeological deposits, features, and structures encountered during church restoration work including chancel underpinning and drainage installation. The work was undertaken to meet the requirements of both the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Diocese, indicating the significance of the site's archaeological and heritage value.

Alkmonton was originally a township within Longford parish in the Appletree Hundred, later incorporated as a civil parish in December 1866. The location had significant medieval religious significance as the site of a leper hospital founded in 1100 and refounded in 1406, and was served by a perpetual curate in the Diocese of Lichfield worth £50 annually during the 19th century.