Bickley in the Domesday Book (1086)

Bickley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Duddeston

• Bettisfield
• Bickerton
• Boughton
• Broxton
• Burwardestone
• Burwardsley and [Higher] Burwardsley
• Caldecott
• Calvintone
• Cheaveley
• Cholmondeley
• Chowley
• Christleton
• Clutton
• Coddington

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bickley 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 Bickley.

Listed Buildings Near Bickley

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Bickley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Olive Cottage - 0.54 km
• Sycamore Cottage - 0.6 km
• Stokes Cottage - 0.65 km
• Bickley Moss Cottage - 0.67 km
• Oaktree Cottage - 0.72 km
• The Heritage - 0.75 km
• Rockbarton - 0.79 km
• Church of St Wenefrede - 1.06 km

Bickley Today

Today Bickley lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 481 at the 2011 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 Bickley on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Norbury - 1.4 km SE
• Chorley - 2.8 km NE
• Tushingham - 2.8 km SW
• Frith - 3.2 km E
• Cholmondeley - 3.2 km N
• Marbury - 3.2 km S