Halsall is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in [West] Derby

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Halsall 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 Halsall.

Listed Buildings Near Halsall

Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Halsall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Cuthbert - 0.56 km

Grade II

Halsall House - 0.25 km
Ha Ha to East, South and West of Halsall House - 0.27 km
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Bridge Number 26 - 0.35 km
Ruins of Building Approximately 230 Metres North North East of Church of St Cuthbert - 0.39 km
3A, Summerwood Lane - 0.51 km
Old Font Approximately 1 Metre South East of Church of St Cuthbert - 0.57 km
Sundial Approximately 10 Metres South of Church of St Cuthbert - 0.57 km
War Memorial - 0.64 km
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Weaver’s Bridge (Number 27) Weaver’s Bridge (Number 27) - 0.82 km
Halsall Hall - 0.88 km
58, New Street - 0.97 km
Boundary Stone - 1.04 km
Hill Bridge (Number 24) Leeds and Liverpool Canal Hill Bridge (Number 24) - 1.26 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Halsall

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

Halsall medieval rectory - 0.41 km

Halsall Today

Today Halsall lies within the administrative area of West Lancashire, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,185 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 Halsall on Wikipedia .