Huncoat in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Huncoat, entered under the hundred of Blackburn in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Blackburn
- Bardwell
- Barnham
- Barningham
- Blackburn
- Coney Weston
- Culford
- Elmswell
- Euston
- Hepworth
- Hinderclay
- Honington
- Hopton
- Hunston
- Ingham
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Huncoat 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 Huncoat.
Listed Buildings Near Huncoat
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Huncoat. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Hill House Farmhouse - 0.14 km
- Village Stocks in Corner of Road 100 Metres East of Hill House - 0.16 km
- Huncoat War Memorial - 0.33 km
- Huncoat Hall and Attached Barn - 0.59 km
- High Brake Hall - 0.63 km
- Church of St Augustine (Of Hippo) - 0.64 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Huncoat
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Huncoat:
- Hapton Castle - 1.6 km
Huncoat Today
Today Huncoat lies within the administrative area of Hyndburn, and the settlement recorded a population of 4,418 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Huncoat on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Whalley - 7.2 km NW
- Blackburn - 9.2 km W
- Pendleton - 9.2 km N
- Great Mitton - 10.0 km NW
Heritage Around Huncoat
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.
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger May · 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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