The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bickerton, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Duddeston

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bickerton 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 Bickerton.

Listed Buildings Near Bickerton

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Bickerton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Church of the Holy Trinity - 1.16 km
Bickerton War Memorial - 1.21 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Bickerton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Bickerton:

Bowl barrow 140m east of Long Lane - 0.52 km
Maiden Castle promontory fort on Bickerton Hill 700m west of Hill Farm - 0.92 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Larkton - 1.0 km S
Duckington - 1.4 km SW
Broxton - 2.2 km NW
Edge - 2.8 km SW
Cholmondeley - 3.2 km E
Hampton - 3.2 km S

Heritage Around Bickerton

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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Bickerton in the Domesday Book (1086)