Henbury in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Henbury is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamestan in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Hamestan

• Adlington
• Bosley
• Bramhall
• Bredbury
• Butley
• Capesthorne
• Cheadle
• Chelford
• Cranage
• Gawsworth
• Hollingworth
• Hungrewenitune
• Kermincham
• Leighton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Henbury is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word burh, a fortified place. 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 stronghold’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Henbury.

Listed Buildings Near Henbury

Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Henbury. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Henbury and Broken Cross War Memorial - 0.42 km
• Church of St Thomas - 0.48 km
• Lych Gate to Church of St Thomas - 0.49 km
• The Vicarage - 0.52 km
• The Stables - 0.66 km
• Davenport Heyes - 0.68 km
• 3 and 5, Pexhill Road - 0.68 km
• 1, Pexhill Road - 0.69 km
• The Mount - 0.97 km
• Henbury Hall Lodge - 1.1 km
• Yew Tree Farmhouse - 1.12 km
• Parkside Hospital Chapel - 1.15 km

Henbury Today

Today Henbury lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 651 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 Henbury on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Macclesfield - 3.0 km E
• Over Alderley - 3.6 km NW
• Gawsworth - 4.0 km S
• Capesthorne - 4.1 km W
• Hungrewenitune - 4.5 km NE
• Nether Alderley - 5.0 km NW