Capenhurst in the Domesday Book (1086)
Capenhurst appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Willaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Capenhurst is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hyrst, a wooded hill. 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 wooded hill’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Capenhurst.
Listed Buildings Near Capenhurst
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Capenhurst. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- The Old Pinfold - 0.31 km
- Church of the Holy Trinity - 0.38 km
- Footpath Guidepost 50 Metres East of Heath Farmhouse - 0.94 km
- Gibbet Windmill - 1.28 km
Capenhurst Today
Today Capenhurst lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 225 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 Capenhurst on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ledsham - 1.4 km NW
- Lea - 2.2 km SE
- Great and Little Saughall - 3.0 km S
- Shotwick - 3.6 km SW
- Puddington - 4.0 km W
- Great and Little Sutton - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Capenhurst
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.
© Richard Hoare · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Whatley · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Whatley · 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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