Alvanley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Alvanley is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ruloe in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Ruloe
- Aldredelie
- Conersley
- Done
- Dunham [on the Hill]
- Eddisbury
- Elton
- Frodsham
- Hartford
- Helsby
- Ince
- Kingsley
- Manley
- Thornton [le Moors]
- Weaverham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Alvanley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Alvanley.
Listed Buildings Near Alvanley
Historic England records 21 listed buildings within about a mile of Alvanley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Alvanley Hall Farmhouse - 0.81 km
Grade II
- Shippon 15 Metres South West of Church House Farmhouse - 0.5 km
- Church House Farmhouse and Wall to Front Garden - 0.53 km
- Alvanley School and Former Schoolmaster’s House - 0.58 km
- Griffith Tomb 13 Metres West of West End of South Aisle of Church of St John - 0.61 km
- Noden Tomb 10 Metres West of West End of South Aisle of Church of St John - 0.62 km
- Shippon 10 Metres West of Greenbank Farmhouse - 0.62 km
- Greenbank Farmhouse - 0.63 km
- Church of St John - 0.63 km
- Ash Cottage - 0.66 km
- Shippon Stable and Cartshed 10 Metres South East of Poplar Tree Farmhouse - 0.79 km
- Poplar Tree Farmhouse - 0.81 km
- Stables and Cartshed on North Side of Tithe Barn Yard - 0.85 km
- Clematis Cottage - 0.85 km
- Tithe Barn 180 Metres South East of Alvanley Hall - 0.87 km
- Walnut Tree Farmhouse - 0.88 km
- Meadowbank Cottage - 1.12 km
- Birch Cottage - 1.15 km
- Commonside Farmhouse - 1.2 km
- Dovecot 45 Metres East of Manley Old Hall - 1.2 km
- Holly Tree Cottage - 1.21 km
Alvanley Today
Today Alvanley lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 503 at the 2021 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 Alvanley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Dunham on the Hill - 2.2 km SW
- Helsby - 2.2 km NW
- Manley - 2.2 km SE
- Ashton - 4.1 km S
- Elton - 4.5 km NW
- Bridge Trafford - 4.5 km SW
Heritage Around Alvanley
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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© Mike Harris · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Godfree · 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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