Alretunstall is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Tunendune in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Tunendune

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Alretunstall 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 Alretunstall.

Listed Buildings Near Alretunstall

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Alretunstall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Christ Church - 0.56 km
The Old Hall - 0.92 km

Alretunstall Today

Today Alretunstall lies within the administrative area of Trafford, and the settlement recorded a population of 11,323 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Timperley on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Hale - 2.2 km SW
Baguley - 3.6 km NE
Bowdon - 3.6 km SW
Dunham Massey - 4.0 km W
Ashley - 4.1 km S
Northenden - 5.1 km E

Heritage Around Alretunstall

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.

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Alretunstall in the Domesday Book (1086)