Kermincham in the Domesday Book (1086)
Kermincham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamestan in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Hamestan
- Adlington
- Bosley
- Bramhall
- Bredbury
- Butley
- Capesthorne
- Cheadle
- Chelford
- Cranage
- Gawsworth
- Henbury
- Hollingworth
- Hungrewenitune
- Leighton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Kermincham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead or village. 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 homestead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Kermincham.
Listed Buildings Near Kermincham
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Kermincham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Peter - 0.56 km
Grade II
- Manor Farmhouse - 0.27 km
- Swettenham Arms - 0.49 km
Kermincham Today
Today Kermincham lies within the administrative area of Swettenham.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Kermincham
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.
© Peter Whatley · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mike Faherty · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Whatley · 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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