Conersley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ruloe in Cheshire. The survey assessed Conersley at 5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Conersley supported a recorded population of 3 villagers, 4 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 6 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Conersley’s value at 2.5 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

The survey lists 2 manors at Conersley under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Conersley (1086)

Meadow: 2 None

Other Settlements in Ruloe

The Meaning of the Name

The name Conersley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Conersley.

Listed Buildings Near Conersley

Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Conersley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*