Bootle in the Domesday Book (1086)
Bootle appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Bootle at 10 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Bootle supported a recorded population of 13 villagers, 10 slaves, working 11 ploughs between them.
The survey records Bootle’s value at 10 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
Resources Recorded at Bootle (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 13d)
- Meadow: 8 acres
- Woodland: 1 * 1 leagues
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Bootle 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 Bootle.
Listed Buildings Near Bootle
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Bootle. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
Grade II
- Church of St Michael - 0.16 km
- Shaw Monument Approximately 20 Metres to South of St Michael’s Church - 0.16 km
- Sundial Approximately 3 Metres South of St Michael’s Church - 0.17 km
- Village Cross - 0.18 km
- Captain Shaw’s Primary School - 0.32 km
- House and Shop Opposite Captain Shaw’s School - 0.32 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Bootle
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Bootle:
- Seaton nunnery (site of) - 1.47 km
Bootle Today
Today Bootle lies within the administrative area of Copeland, and the settlement recorded a population of 744 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 Bootle on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Whicham - 6.7 km SE
- Kirksanton - 8.9 km SE
- Millom Castle - 9.9 km SE
- Broughton in Furness - 10.0 km E
- Millom - 10.6 km SE
Heritage Around Bootle
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.
© Perry Dark · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Philip Halling · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · 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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