Lache in the Domesday Book (1086)
Lache is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Lache 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 Lache.
Listed Buildings Near Lache
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Lache. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Roughhill - 1.21 km
- Two Mile House - 1.24 km
- Wrexham Road Farmhouse and Farmbuildings - 1.26 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Lache
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Lache:
- Moated site 180m W of Fir Tree Farm - 0.7 km
Lache Today
Today Lache lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 5,760 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 Lache on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Lache
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.
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© John S Turner · 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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