Aughton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Aughton, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in [West] Derby

• Ainsdale
• Allerton
• Argarmeles
• Barton
• Bootle
• Childwall
• Dalton
• Downholland
• Formby
• Halsall
• Hurlston
• Huyton
• Ince [Blundell]
• Kirkby

The Meaning of the Name

The name Aughton 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 Aughton.

Listed Buildings Near Aughton

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Aughton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Michael - 0.44 km

Grade II

• Cross Base Approximately 20 Metres South of Church of St Michael - 0.43 km
• Aughton Old Hall - 0.46 km
• War Memorial - 0.57 km
• Cross Base Approximately 50 Metres West of Junction With Northway - 0.61 km
• Holt Green House - 0.64 km

Aughton Today

Today Aughton lies within the administrative area of West Lancashire, and the settlement recorded a population of 8,034 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 Aughton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Lydiate - 3.2 km W
• Downholland - 3.6 km NW
• Maghull - 3.6 km SW
• Up Litherland - 4.0 km N
• Melling - 5.0 km S
• Hurlston - 5.1 km N