Bridge Trafford in the Domesday Book (1086)

Bridge Trafford appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ruloe in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Ruloe

• Aldredelie
• Alvanley
• Conersley
• Done
• Dunham [on the Hill]
• Eddisbury
• Elton
• Frodsham
• Hartford
• Helsby
• Ince
• Kingsley
• Manley
• Thornton [le Moors]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bridge Trafford is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hrycg, a ridge. 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 ridge’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Bridge Trafford.

Listed Buildings Near Bridge Trafford

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Bridge Trafford. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Trafford Hall With Attached Service Wing and Carriage House - 0.84 km

Grade II

• The Lodge - 0.75 km
• Trafford Mill - 0.85 km
• Park Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings - 0.85 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Bridge Trafford

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Bridge Trafford:

• St Plegmund’s Well 200m east of Bankfield Farm - 1.34 km

Bridge Trafford Today

Today Bridge Trafford lies within the administrative area of Mickle Trafford and District.

Read more about modern Bridge Trafford on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Wimbolds Trafford - 1.4 km NW
• Picton - 2.0 km W
• Dunham on the Hill - 2.2 km NE
• Great and Little Barrow - 2.2 km SE
• Mickle Trafford - 2.2 km SW
• Thornton le Moors - 3.2 km N