Beeston in the Domesday Book (1086)
Beeston is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Rushton in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Rushton
- Alpraham
- Alretone
- Ashton
- Bunbury and [Lower] Bunbury
- Burton
- Clotton
- Cocle
- Iddinshall
- Opetone
- Oulton
- Over
- Peckforton
- Rushton
- Spurstow
The Meaning of the Name
The name Beeston 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 Beeston.
Listed Buildings Near Beeston
Historic England records 21 listed buildings within about a mile of Beeston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Peckforton Castle - 0.46 km
- Walls of the Outer Bailey at Beeston Castle - 0.76 km
- Walls, Towers and Gatehouse of the Inner Bailey at Beeston Castle - 0.81 km
Grade II*
- Chapel in the Ward of Peckforton Castle - 0.53 km
- Brook Farm Cottage - 0.78 km
- Entrance Lodge South East of Peckforton Castle - 0.93 km
Grade II
- Moathouse - 0.14 km
- Bath Garden Cottage - 0.23 km
- Bathing House - 0.25 km
- Bathing Pool and Well in the Garden of Bath Garden Cottage - 0.26 km
- Horsley Lane Farmhouse - 0.49 km
- Castleside Farmhouse - 0.52 km
- Gamekeepers Cottage - 0.57 km
- Beech Tree Cottage - 0.6 km
- Cottage C15 Yards South-west of Gamekeeper’s Cottage - 0.6 km
- Smithy Cottage - 0.61 km
- Castleside Cottage - 0.62 km
- Brook Cottage - 0.71 km
- Barn at Brook Farm - 0.74 km
- The Lodge at Beeston Castle - 0.74 km
- Garden Cottage - 1.06 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Beeston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Beeston:
- Beeston Castle; medieval enclosure castle and site of late prehistoric hillfort - 0.77 km
- Promontory fort east of Peckforton Mere - 1.05 km
Beeston Today
Today Beeston lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 238 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 Beeston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Peckforton - 2.0 km S
- Burwardsley and Higher Burwardsley - 2.2 km SW
- Spurstow - 2.8 km SE
- Tiverton - 2.8 km NE
- Bunbury and Lower Bunbury - 3.2 km E
- Tilstone Fearnall - 3.6 km NE
Heritage Around Beeston
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.
© Jeff Buck · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Jeff Buck · 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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