The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Kingsley, entered under the hundred of Ruloe in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Ruloe

The Meaning of the Name

The name Kingsley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Kingsley.

Listed Buildings Near Kingsley

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Kingsley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

The Croft - 0.35 km
Lychgate to St Johns Churchyard - 0.56 km
Church of St John - 0.57 km
Kingsley Hall - 0.72 km
Castle Hill House - 0.8 km
Castle Hill Farmhouse - 0.85 km
Walls and 2 Bridges to Moat at Peel Hall - 1.22 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Kingsley

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Kingsley:

Peel Hall moated site, Kingsley - 1.2 km
Castle Cob motte - 1.59 km

Kingsley Today

Today Kingsley lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,852 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 Kingsley on Wikipedia .