The settlement of Chorlton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Warmundestrou

The Meaning of the Name

The name Chorlton 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 Chorlton.

Listed Buildings Near Chorlton

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Chorlton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Basford Bridge Cottage - 0.97 km

Chorlton Today

Today Chorlton lies within the administrative area of Hough and Chorlton, and the settlement recorded a population of 937 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 Chorlton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Basford - 2.2 km NW
Blakenhall - 3.0 km S
Shavington - 3.2 km W
Wybunbury - 3.2 km W
Walgherton - 3.6 km SW
Barthomley - 4.5 km NE

Heritage Around Chorlton

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.

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Chorlton in the Domesday Book (1086)