Domesday Book
Cheshire
Hofinghel in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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COUNTY: Cheshire
The settlement of Hofinghel is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086 in Cheshire.
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Hofinghel 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 Hofinghel.
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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