Greenfield in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Greenfield, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire. The survey assessed Greenfield at 1.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Greenfield supported a recorded population of 1 smallholder, 1 slave, working 1 plough between them.
The survey records Greenfield’s value at 1.25 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
Resources Recorded at Greenfield (1086)
- Cattle: 3
- Pigs: 1
- Meadow: 6 acres
- Woodland: 30 acres
Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross
The Meaning of the Name
The name Greenfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country, while the first element appears to represent green. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the green open land’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Greenfield.
Greenfield Today
Today Greenfield lies within the administrative area of Holywell, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,741 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 Greenfield on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Greenfield
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.
© John S Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Jeremy Bolwell · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John S 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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