by the B5010 and A52 roads by the Hill Top farm at . History Toponymy Only Draycott was listed in the Domesday 1086 landholding survey as Draicot or Dry Cote which was thought to mean ‘dry place’. Wilne was first noted soon after in very late 11th century records and stood for ‘clearing in the willows’. It was alternatively later known as Little Wilne to help distinguish it from Great Wilne. Parish and environment Prehistory to Victorian era and early economy The area has unearthed very few prehistoric and early history remains, such as a flint knife of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age origin (3000 BC to 1501 BC) found in topsoil in a field to the south-east of Draycott. Also in the same area, a Bronze Age cremation cemetery, found human remains dated to the period 1600 BC to 1001 BC. A Late Bronze Age sword which was found by a machine operator during gravel extraction during the later 20th century at Church Wilne. The present day A6005 road from Derby which branches off to Sawley is an old Roman road during that era (43 AD to 409 AD) from Little Chester to the River Trent at Sawley which cannot be precisely dated but was probably built shortly after the establishment of a Roman fort at Little Chester during the 80s AD, and used by the Romans for efficient movement of soldiers, as well as to get Derbyshire lead to the Trent Lock area by the River Trent. It is possible that Church Wilne was the earlier settlement in the 7th or 8th century as St Chad established a base there by 670AD to spread Christianity through what was then the Kingdom of Mercia, and a church was recorded there in 822AD. By the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, the area was part of Morlestan wapentake, and associated to Sawley, which became an extensive parish containing the chapelries of Wilne, Long-Eaton, Breason, Risley and the hamlets of Draycott and Hopwell. Domesday records: "in Salle, and Dracot, and Opeuuelle (Hopwell), a priest and two churches, a mill, one fishery, and thirty acres of meadow." The two churches were likely to have been Sawley and Church Wilne. The area at this time was held by the Bishop of Lichfield (St Chad being an earlier archbishop) but was recorded in Domesday as the Bishop of Chester as the diocese