Cholmondeston in the Domesday Book (1086)
Cholmondeston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire. The survey assessed Cholmondeston at 4 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Cholmondeston supported a recorded population of 9 villagers, working 3 ploughs between them.
The numbers record a sharp fall. Before 1066, Cholmondeston was worth 12d; by 1086 that had dropped to 8d – a fall of 33%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.
Other Settlements in Warmundestrou
- Acton
- Aston
- Aston [juxta Mondrem]
- Audlem
- Austerson
- Baddiley
- Barthomley
- Basford
- Batherton
- Blakenhall
- Broomhall
- Buerton
- Chorley
- Chorlton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Cholmondeston 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 Cholmondeston.
Cholmondeston Today
Today Cholmondeston lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 218 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 Cholmondeston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Wettenhall - 2.2 km NW
- Church Minshull - 3.2 km E
- Poole - 3.2 km S
- Wardle - 3.6 km SW
- Aston juxta Mondrem - 3.6 km SE
- Minshull Vernon - 4.1 km E
Heritage Around Cholmondeston
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.
© Espresso Addict · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mike Grose · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Espresso Addict · 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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