High Legh in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of High Legh, entered under the hundred of Tunendune in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Tunendune

• Alretunstall
• Antrobus
• Baguley
• Bowdon
• Chapmonswiche
• Cogshall
• Dutton
• Hale
• Halton
• Knutsford
• Mere
• Middle Aston
• Millington
• Rostherne

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name High Legh 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 High Legh.

Listed Buildings Near High Legh

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of High Legh. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Chapel of St Mary - 0.72 km

Grade II

• Church of St John - 0.56 km
• West Hall Farmhouse - 0.61 km
• Cooper’s Square - 0.72 km
• Front Lodge - 0.81 km
• Old Farm - 0.82 km
• Apple Tree Cottage - 0.95 km
• Dairy Farm House - 1.13 km
• Lime Tree Farmhouse - 1.13 km

High Legh Today

Today High Legh lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,720 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 High Legh on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Lymm - 2.8 km NW
• Millington - 3.0 km E
• Mere - 4.2 km SE
• Over Tabley - 5.0 km SE
• Rostherne - 5.1 km E
• Warburton - 5.1 km N