Great Budworth in the Domesday Book (1086)

Great Budworth appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bucklow in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Bucklow

• Appleton
• Ashley
• Aston [by Budworth]
• Aston [by Sutton]
• Bartington
• Clifton
• Dunham [Massey]
• Eanley
• Grappenhall
• Lymm
• Mobberley
• Northenden
• Norton
• Ollerton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Great Budworth 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 Great Budworth.

Listed Buildings Near Great Budworth

Historic England records 62 listed buildings within about a mile of Great Budworth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Mary and All Saints - 0.12 km

Grade II*

• The Old Schoolhouse - 0.13 km

Grade II

• South Bank Cottages - 0.08 km
• Churchyard Wall to High Street, School Lane and Southbank - 0.09 km
• Sundial 12 Metres South of South Porch of Church of St Mary and All Angels - 0.11 km
• Goldmine House Rose Cottage - 0.12 km
• 32 and 33, School Lane - 0.14 km
• 35 and 36, School Lane - 0.15 km
• Lychgate to Churchyard of St Mary and All Saints - 0.15 km
• Rose Cottage - 0.15 km
• Stocks - 0.16 km
• Upper Wellhouse - 0.17 km
• 37, 38 and 39, Church Street - 0.17 km
• 50, Church Street - 0.17 km
• Providence House - 0.18 km
• The Manor House - 0.18 km
• Hough Farmhouse - 0.18 km
• 40, Church Street - 0.18 km
• The George and Dragon - 0.18 km
• Providence Cottage - 0.19 km
• 24, High Street - 0.19 km
• Methodist Church - 0.2 km
• 22 and 23, High Street - 0.2 km
• 46 and 47, Church Street - 0.21 km

…and 38 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Great Budworth

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

• Belmont moated site and fishpond - 1.29 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Aston by Budworth - 1.4 km NE
• Wincham - 2.2 km SE
• Cogshall - 3.0 km W
• Antrobus - 3.6 km NW
• Winnington - 3.6 km SW
• Witton - 4.0 km S