Hargrave in the Domesday Book (1086)
Hargrave appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Willaston
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Hargrave 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 Hargrave.
Listed Buildings Near Hargrave
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Hargrave. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Willaston Mill - 1.07 km
- Chicken Corner Farm - 1.21 km
- Lydiate Lodge - 1.24 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Raby - 1.0 km W
- Thornton Hough - 2.2 km NW
- Hadlow - 2.2 km SE
- Poulton Lancelyn - 2.2 km NE
- Little Neston - 2.8 km SW
- Eastham - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around Hargrave
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.
© Peter Craine · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Rosalind Mitchell · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Sue Adair · 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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