The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Croughton, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Willaston

The Meaning of the Name

The name Croughton 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 Croughton.

Listed Buildings Near Croughton

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Croughton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Lawrence - 1.12 km

Grade II

Croughton Bridge (135) - 0.4 km
Remains of Chapel West of Chapelhouse Farm - 0.69 km
Wervin Old Hall - 0.85 km
Picton Lane Bridge (136) - 0.92 km
Farmbuildings at Chorlton Lodge Farm - 0.96 km
Chorlton Lodge Farmhouse - 0.99 km
Stoak Farmhouse - 1.01 km
Sundial, South West of Church of St Lawrence - 1.09 km
Chorlton Hall - 1.11 km
Stoak Bridge (137) - 1.16 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Croughton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Croughton:

Chapel at Chapel House Farm 200m west of Wervin Old Hall - 0.69 km
Standing cross in St Lawrence’s churchyard, Stoak - 1.1 km

Croughton Today

Today Croughton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 31 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 Croughton on Wikipedia .