Guilden Sutton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Guilden Sutton 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 name Guilden Sutton 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 Guilden Sutton.
Listed Buildings Near Guilden Sutton
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Guilden Sutton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Church of St John the Baptist - 0.41 km
- Sundial in the Churchyard of St John the Baptist - 0.42 km
- Hill Farmhouse - 0.47 km
- Mickle Trafford Manor - 1.08 km
- L Shaped Farm Building 30 Metres East of Ivy Bank Farmhouse - 1.14 km
- Ivy Bank Farmhouse - 1.15 km
- Windsor Lodge - 1.18 km
Guilden Sutton Today
Today Guilden Sutton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,535 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 Guilden Sutton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Mickle Trafford - 1.0 km N
- Great and Little Barrow - 2.2 km NE
- Newton by Chester - 3.0 km W
- Picton - 3.2 km N
- Bridge Trafford - 3.2 km N
- Christleton - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around [Guilden] Sutton
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
© Dennis Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen Charles · 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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