Duckington in the Domesday Book (1086)
Duckington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Duddeston
- Bettisfield
- Bickerton
- Bickley
- Boughton
- Broxton
- Burwardestone
- Burwardsley and [Higher] Burwardsley
- Caldecott
- Calvintone
- Cheaveley
- Cholmondeley
- Chowley
- Christleton
- Clutton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Duckington 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 Duckington.
Listed Buildings Near Duckington
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Duckington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Larkton House - 0.61 km
- Barn to South of Shippons at Bank Farm - 0.61 km
- Shippons at Bank Farm - 0.62 km
- Cart House to East of Shippons at Bank Farm - 0.64 km
- Higher Hall Farmhouse - 1.14 km
- Noonday Cottage - 1.15 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Duckington
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Duckington:
Duckington Today
Today Duckington lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 53 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 Duckington on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Duckington
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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© M J Richardson · 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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