Blacon in the Domesday Book (1086)
Blacon appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Willaston
- Barnston
- Capenhurst
- Croughton
- Eastham
- Gayton
- Greasby
- Hadlow
- Hargrave
- Heswall
- Hooton
- Landican
- Lea
- Ledsham
- Leighton
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Blacon is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Blacon.
Blacon Today
Today Blacon lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 13,626 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Blacon on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Chester - 3.2 km E
- Great and Little Saughall - 3.2 km N
- Overleigh - 3.6 km SE
- Upton by Chester - 3.6 km NE
- Mollington - 3.6 km NE
- Redcliff - 4.1 km E
Heritage Around Blacon
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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© chestertouristcom · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Josie Carman · 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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