Broxton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Broxton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Duddeston
- Bettisfield
- Bickerton
- Bickley
- Boughton
- Burwardestone
- Burwardsley and [Higher] Burwardsley
- Caldecott
- Calvintone
- Cheaveley
- Cholmondeley
- Chowley
- Christleton
- Clutton
- Coddington
The Meaning of the Name
The name Broxton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Broxton.
Listed Buildings Near Broxton
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Broxton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Broxton Old Hall - 0.21 km
- Lodge to Broxton Old Hall - 0.27 km
- Stone Parlour in Grounds of Broxton Old Hall - 0.29 km
- Hunter’s Lodge Hotel - 0.91 km
- Barn House - 0.95 km
- Brown Knowl Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School - 0.95 km
- Tomb of John Wedgwood in Churchyard of Brown Knowl Methodist Church - 0.99 km
- Bay Bush - 1.02 km
- Bankhead - 1.17 km
- Bankhead Stable and Coach House Building, and Yard Wall - 1.2 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Broxton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Broxton:
Broxton Today
Today Broxton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 361 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 Broxton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Broxton
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.
© Mike Searle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mike Harris · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© M J Richardson · 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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