Ledsham in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Ledsham is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Willaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Ledsham 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 Ledsham.
Listed Buildings Near Ledsham
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Ledsham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Court Farmhouse - 0.09 km
- Northern Barn to Holly Bank Farm - 0.11 km
- Barn 50 Metres North of Court Farmhouse - 0.12 km
- Footpath Guidepost at Junction With Parkgate Road - 0.81 km
- Footpath Guidepost 50 Metres East of Heath Farmhouse - 0.96 km
- The Old Pinfold - 1.23 km
Ledsham Today
Today Ledsham lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 137 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 Ledsham on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Capenhurst - 1.4 km SE
- Puddington - 3.2 km W
- Lea - 3.6 km SE
- Hadlow - 3.6 km NW
- Great and Little Sutton - 3.6 km NE
- Shotwick - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around Ledsham
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 Craine · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Eirian Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Hoare · 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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