Cefn Du in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Cefn Du, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Cefn Du 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 Cefn Du.
Cefn Du Today
Today Cefn Du lies within the administrative area of Denbighshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 27,060 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 Rhyl on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Cwybr Bach - 1.4 km SE
- Rhyd Orddwy - 2.0 km E
- Pentre - 2.2 km SE
- Cwybr - 2.2 km SE
- Bryn - 2.8 km SE
- Llewerllyd - 3.6 km SE
Heritage Around Cefn Du
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.
© David and Rachel Landin · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David and Rachel Landin · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Teal · 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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