Great and Little Meols in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Great and Little Meols is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Willaston
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Great and Little Meols 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 Great and Little Meols.
Listed Buildings Near Great and Little Meols
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Great and Little Meols. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Rose Cottage - 1.06 km
- Redstone Farm - 1.2 km
Great and Little Meols Today
Today Great and Little Meols lies within the administrative area of Wirral, and the settlement recorded a population of 5,110 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Meols on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Greasby - 3.6 km SE
- Great Caldy - 4.1 km S
- Upton - 4.2 km SE
- Little Caldy - 5.0 km S
- Noctorum - 6.7 km SE
- Landican - 7.1 km SE
Heritage Around [Great and Little] Meols
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.
© Eirian Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Quinn · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Sue Adair · 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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