Alretone in the Domesday Book (1086)
Alretone is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Rushton in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Rushton
- Alpraham
- Ashton
- Beeston
- Bunbury and [Lower] Bunbury
- Burton
- Clotton
- Cocle
- Iddinshall
- Opetone
- Oulton
- Over
- Peckforton
- Rushton
- Spurstow
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Alretone is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Alretone.
Listed Buildings Near Alretone
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Alretone. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Utkinton Hall - 1.09 km
Grade II*
Grade II
- Utkinton War Memorial - 0.11 km
- 16, Northgate - 0.35 km
- Eastern Entrance of Southern Gateway to Tirley Garth - 0.5 km
- The Lodge - 0.5 km
- South Terrace and Complex of Walls at Tirley Garth - 0.74 km
- Walls and Steps of East Terrace and Associated Formal Gardens at Tirley Garth - 0.76 km
- Terrace Walls 70Metres North of Utkinton Hall - 1.01 km
- The Bailiff’s House - 1.02 km
- Roadside Wall and Gatepiers, and the West Terrace Walls at Utkinton Hall - 1.05 km
- East Garden Walls and Gatepiers to Utkinton Hall - 1.08 km
- Barn 35 Metres East of Utkinton Hall - 1.09 km
- Fishersgreen Farmhouse - 1.1 km
- Former Stables, 10 Metres West of Fishersgreen Farmhouse - 1.12 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Alretone
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Alretone:
- High Billinge bowl barrow - 1.15 km
Alretone Today
Today Alretone lies within the administrative area of Utkinton and Cotebrook, and the settlement recorded a population of 706 at the 2011 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Utkinton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Willington - 2.2 km NW
- Clotton - 2.8 km SW
- Tarporley - 3.2 km S
- Iddinshall - 3.2 km S
- Cocle - 3.6 km NW
- Eddisbury - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Alretone
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© John Firth · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Felix Hemsted · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Ian Nadin · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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