Edge in the Domesday Book (1086)
Edge appears in the Domesday Book of 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 origin of the name Edge is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Edge.
Listed Buildings Near Edge
Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Edge. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Edge Hall - 0.52 km
Grade II
- Brassey’s Contract Cottage - 0.08 km
- The Bank - 0.12 km
- The Bryans - 0.18 km
- Noonday Cottage - 0.39 km
- Dairy Range at Dairy House Farm - 0.5 km
- Stone Bridge to North of Edge Hall - 0.52 km
- Higher Hall Farmhouse - 0.66 km
- The Clock House - 1.0 km
- Park Cottages - 1.2 km
- Gatehouse Farmhouse - 1.27 km
- Barn to South of Shippons at Bank Farm - 1.27 km
- The Round House - 1.28 km
- Cart House to East of Shippons at Bank Farm - 1.3 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Edge
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Edge:
- Old Hall Heys moated site - 1.54 km
Edge Today
Today Edge lies within the administrative area of Cheshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 247 at the 2011 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 Edge on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Edge
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.
© John S Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Espresso Addict · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Espresso Addict · 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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