Great Eccleston in the Domesday Book (1086)
Great Eccleston is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Great Eccleston is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Great Eccleston.
Listed Buildings Near Great Eccleston
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Great Eccleston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Willow Cottage Restaurant - 0.28 km
- Pinfold - 0.3 km
- Western House on Southern Side of the Square - 0.33 km
- Dovecote - 0.43 km
- Milestone - 0.51 km
- Church of St Anne - 1.12 km
- The Old Barn - 1.3 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Great Eccleston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Great Eccleston:
Great Eccleston Today
Today Great Eccleston lies within the administrative area of Wyre, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,777 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 Great Eccleston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Rawcliffe Hall - 1.4 km NW
- Upper Rawcliffe - 1.4 km NE
- Little Eccleston - 1.4 km SW
- Elswick - 2.0 km S
- Out Rawcliffe - 2.2 km NW
- Aschebi - 4.1 km E
Heritage Around [Great] Eccleston
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.
© David Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bob Jenkins · 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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