Baddiley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Baddiley, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Warmundestrou
- Acton
- Aston
- Aston [juxta Mondrem]
- Audlem
- Austerson
- Barthomley
- Basford
- Batherton
- Blakenhall
- Broomhall
- Buerton
- Cholmondeston
- Chorley
- Chorlton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Baddiley 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 Baddiley.
Listed Buildings Near Baddiley
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Baddiley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Michael - 0.14 km
Grade II
- Baddiley Hall - 0.12 km
- Llangollen Branch of Shropshire Union Canal, Baddiley Lock Number 3 - 0.57 km
- Llangollen Branch of Shropshire Union Canal, Baddiley Lock Number 2 - 0.86 km
- Crabmill Farmhouse - 1.06 km
- Llangollen Branch of Shropshire Union Canal, Baddiley Lock Number 1 - 1.23 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Baddiley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Baddiley:
Baddiley Today
Today Baddiley lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 249 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 Baddiley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Baddiley
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
© Pierre Terre · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Espresso Addict · 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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