Little Budworth in the Domesday Book (1086)
Little Budworth is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Rushton in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Rushton
- Alpraham
- Alretone
- Ashton
- Beeston
- Bunbury and [Lower] Bunbury
- Burton
- Clotton
- Cocle
- Iddinshall
- Opetone
- Oulton
- Over
- Peckforton
- Rushton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Little Budworth is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word worð, an enclosure or homestead. 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 enclosure’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Little Budworth.
Listed Buildings Near Little Budworth
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Little Budworth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Dodds Charity Alms Houses and Garden Wall - 0.15 km
- Church of St Peter - 0.28 km
- Screen, Lodges and Gates at Oulton Park - 0.49 km
- Monument to John Francis Egerton - 0.62 km
Grade II
- The Old Vicarage - 0.17 km
- Pinfold - 0.27 km
- Church View and Old Hall Cottage - 0.31 km
- Well House Farmhouse - 0.41 km
- Farmbuilding C50 Yards to East of Stable Block - 0.81 km
- Stable Block - 0.86 km
- Oulton Smithy - 1.1 km
Little Budworth Today
Today Little Budworth lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 697 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 Little Budworth on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [Little] Budworth
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.
© Stephen Charles · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Lord · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Duncan Pepper · 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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