The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Dodleston, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross

The Meaning of the Name

The name Dodleston 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 Dodleston.

Listed Buildings Near Dodleston

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Dodleston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Greenwalls, Farm Buildings - 0.36 km
Greenwalls Farmhouse - 0.38 km
Dovecote at Dodleston Hall - 0.53 km
Dodleston Hall - 0.54 km
Post Office-holly Cottage the Square - 0.59 km
The Square - 0.6 km
Red Lion Inn - 0.61 km
The Square - 0.62 km
Lychgate Canopy and Wing Walls, St Mary’s Churchyard - 0.66 km
Church of St Mary - 0.67 km
Balderton Dairy - 1.06 km
Dodleston Lane Farmhouse - 1.24 km
Dodleston Lane Farm Principal Farm Building - 1.26 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Dodleston

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

Dodleston Hall moated site - 0.46 km
Dodleston motte and bailey castle - 0.76 km

Dodleston Today

Today Dodleston lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,108 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 Dodleston on Wikipedia .