Great and Little Saughall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Great and Little Saughall, 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 Saughall 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 Saughall.
Listed Buildings Near Great and Little Saughall
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Great and Little Saughall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Church of All Saints - 0.26 km
- Aldersey House - 0.57 km
- The Old Swinging Gate Inn - 0.78 km
- Stable Courtyard at Shotwick House - 0.79 km
- Shotwick House - 0.81 km
- Bridge Farmhouse - 0.82 km
- Footpath Guidepost 25 Metres South West of Bridge Farmhouse - 0.85 km
- Fruit Farm Cottages - 0.88 km
- Footpath Guidepost 40 Metres North West of no 123 - 0.96 km
Great and Little Saughall Today
Today Great and Little Saughall lies within the administrative area of Saughall and Shotwick Park, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,009 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 Saughall on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Lea - 2.8 km NE
- Mollington - 3.0 km E
- Capenhurst - 3.0 km N
- Shotwick - 3.2 km W
- Blacon - 3.2 km S
- Upton by Chester - 4.1 km E
Heritage Around [Great and Little] Saughall
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.
© Dennis Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Josie Carman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dennis Turner · 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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