Larkton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Larkton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Duddeston
- Bettisfield
- Bickerton
- Bickley
- Boughton
- Broxton
- Burwardestone
- Burwardsley and [Higher] Burwardsley
- Caldecott
- Calvintone
- Cheaveley
- Cholmondeley
- Chowley
- Christleton
- Clutton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Larkton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead 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 farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Larkton.
Listed Buildings Near Larkton
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Larkton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Larkton House - 0.76 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Larkton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Larkton:
- Bowl barrow 140m east of Long Lane - 1.32 km
Larkton Today
Today Larkton lies within the administrative area of No Man’s Heath and District, and the settlement recorded a population of 28 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 Larkton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Duckington - 1.0 km W
- Bickerton - 1.0 km N
- Edge - 2.2 km SW
- Hampton - 2.2 km SW
- Broxton - 2.8 km NW
- Cholmondeley - 3.0 km E
Heritage Around Larkton
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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© Espresso Addict · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© M J Richardson · 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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