The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Broomhall, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire. The survey assessed Broomhall at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Broomhall supported a recorded population of 3 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 3 ploughs between them.

The survey records Broomhall’s value at 1.5 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 Broomhall (1086)

Cattle: 8
Pigs: 17
Sheep: 45
Meadow: 3 acres

Other Settlements in Warmundestrou

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Broomhall 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 Broomhall.

Listed Buildings Near Broomhall

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Broomhall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Top of the Town - 0.42 km
Heatley - 0.65 km
The Coronerage - 0.97 km
Hall O’coole - 1.04 km
Shropshire Union Canal Milepost Circa 175 Metres South of Mickley Bridge (Number 84) at Sj 646 469 - 1.17 km
Shropshire Union Canal Main Line Mickley Bridge Number 84 - 1.2 km
Hollin’s Green Farmhouse - 1.23 km

Broomhall Today

Today Broomhall lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 189 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 Broomhall on Wikipedia .