Golborne in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Golborne is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey 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 Golborne 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 Golborne.

Listed Buildings Near Golborne

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Golborne. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Corn Barn 30 Metres North of Golborne Old Hall - 0.73 km
• Golborne Old Hall - 0.77 km
• Hatton Hall - 0.86 km
• Causeway Over Moat at Hatton Hall - 0.88 km
• L-shaped Range of Farm Buildings 25 Metres to Rear of Gatesheath Hall - 1.08 km
• Gatesheath Hall - 1.09 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Golborne

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Golborne:

• Hatton Hall moated site - 0.85 km

Golborne Today

Today Golborne 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 Golborne David on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Hatton - 1.4 km NE
• Saighton - 2.8 km NW
• Tattenhall - 2.8 km SE
• Waverton - 3.0 km N
• Handley - 3.0 km S
• Lea Newbold - 3.2 km W