Aston juxta Mondrem in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Aston juxta Mondrem is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Warmundestrou
- Acton
- Aston
- Audlem
- Austerson
- Baddiley
- Barthomley
- Basford
- Batherton
- Blakenhall
- Broomhall
- Buerton
- Cholmondeston
- Chorley
- Chorlton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Aston juxta Mondrem is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Aston juxta Mondrem.
Listed Buildings Near Aston juxta Mondrem
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Aston juxta Mondrem. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- The Church of St Oswald - 0.57 km
- Rookery Hall - 0.72 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Aston juxta Mondrem
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Aston juxta Mondrem:
Aston juxta Mondrem Today
Today Aston juxta Mondrem lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 173 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 Aston juxta Mondrum on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Poole - 1.0 km W
- Worleston - 3.0 km E
- Wisterson - 3.2 km S
- Cholmondeston - 3.6 km NW
- Nantwich - 4.0 km S
- Church Minshull - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Aston [juxta Mondrem]
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.
© Espresso Addict · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Espresso Addict · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mike Grose · 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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