Gawsworth in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Gawsworth, entered under the hundred of Hamestan in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Hamestan
- Adlington
- Bosley
- Bramhall
- Bredbury
- Butley
- Capesthorne
- Cheadle
- Chelford
- Cranage
- Henbury
- Hollingworth
- Hungrewenitune
- Kermincham
- Leighton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Gawsworth is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word worð, an enclosure or homestead. 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 enclosure’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Gawsworth.
Listed Buildings Near Gawsworth
Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Gawsworth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St James - 0.47 km
- The Old Rectory - 0.49 km
- Gawsworth Old Hall - 0.59 km
Grade II*
- Gawsworth New Hall - 0.7 km
- Barn at New Hall Farm - 0.72 km
Grade II
- Harrington Arms Public House - 0.09 km
- Cross Base in Churchyard of St James - 0.47 km
- Pair of Gatepiers in Churchyard of St James - 0.49 km
- Garden Walls at Gawsworth Old Hall - 0.56 km
- Gatepiers Approximately 20 Yards to North-east of Gawsworth Old Hall - 0.61 km
- The Gatehouse - 0.65 km
- Maggoty Johnson’s Grave - 0.77 km
- Watch Tower - 0.87 km
- Gawsworth War Memorial - 1.0 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Gawsworth
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Gawsworth:
- Cross in the churchyard of the Church of St James - 0.47 km
- Gawsworth Hall gardens - 0.58 km
- Standing cross base near the junction of Church Lane and Woodhouse Lane, 600m NNW of New Hall Farm - 0.99 km
Gawsworth Today
Today Gawsworth lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,651 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 Gawsworth on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- North Rode - 3.0 km S
- Henbury - 4.0 km N
- Siddington - 4.1 km W
- Marton - 4.1 km W
- Capesthorne - 5.0 km NW
- Bosley - 5.0 km SE
Heritage Around Gawsworth
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.
© Roger D Kidd · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger D Kidd · 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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