Lea Newbold in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Lea Newbold, 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 origin of the name Lea Newbold 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 Lea Newbold.
Listed Buildings Near Lea Newbold
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Lea Newbold. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Mary the Virgin - 1.1 km
Grade II
- Lea Newbold Farmhouse - 0.57 km
- Churton Heath Farmhouse - 0.74 km
- Leahall Farmhouse - 0.78 km
- Western Part of North Range of Buildings at Newbold - 0.93 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Lea Newbold
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Lea Newbold:
- Moated site of Lea Hall, 80m east of Leahall Farm - 0.72 km
- Bruera moated site and adjacent field system - 1.08 km
- Standing cross in St Mary’s churchyard - 1.08 km
Lea Newbold Today
Today Lea Newbold lies within the administrative area of Aldford and Saighton, and the settlement recorded a population of 8 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 Lea Newbold on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Lea [Newbold]
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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© Alan Murray-Rust · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Eirian Evans · 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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