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Hendrebiffa in the Domesday Book (1086)

YEAR: 1086 HUNDRED: Ati's Cross COUNTY: Cheshire

Hendrebiffa appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hendrebiffa 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 Hendrebiffa.

Hendrebiffa Today

Today Hendrebiffa lies within the administrative area of Mold.

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Heritage Around Hendrebiffa

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.

Celtic cross gravestone in St Mary's churchyard, Mold
Celtic cross gravestone in St Mary's churchyard, Mold (2006)
© Aaron Thomas · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mold Millennium Clock
Mold Millennium Clock (2006)
© Phil Williams · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Row of gravestones in St Mary's churchyard in Mold
Row of gravestones in St Mary's churchyard in Mold (2006)
© Aaron Thomas · 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.

Location

53.1628°N, -3.1444°W · Ati's Cross hundred, Cheshire

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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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