Hartford in the Domesday Book (1086)
Hartford appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ruloe in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Ruloe
- Aldredelie
- Alvanley
- Conersley
- Done
- Dunham [on the Hill]
- Eddisbury
- Elton
- Frodsham
- Helsby
- Ince
- Kingsley
- Manley
- Thornton [le Moors]
- Weaverham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hartford is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hartford.
Listed Buildings Near Hartford
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Hartford. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- The Beeches - 0.44 km
Grade II
- Hartford War Memorial - 0.3 km
- Church of St John - 0.31 km
- Barn 20 Metres West of Brown Heath Farmhouse - 0.75 km
- Front Wall and Steps to Whitehall - 0.76 km
- Whitehall - 0.77 km
- Riddings House - 0.83 km
- The Hollies - 0.86 km
- Hartford Hall Hotel - 1.05 km
- Hartford Manor - 1.08 km
Hartford Today
Today Hartford lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 6,723 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 Hartford on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Hartford
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.
© Steve Leech · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Colin Wynne-Parle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mike Harris · 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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