Little Neston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Little Neston, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire. The survey assessed Little Neston at 5.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Little Neston supported a recorded population of 40 villagers, 7 smallholders, 1 slave, working 18 ploughs between them.
By 1086 Little Neston was worth 28.25 shillings, up from 28 shillings before the Conquest – which sets it apart from the many nearby villages left waste or devalued.
Resources Recorded at Little Neston (1086)
- Mills: 2 mills (valued at 7d)
- Meadow: 8 acres
- Woodland: 40 swine render
Other Settlements in Willaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Little Neston 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 Little Neston.
Listed Buildings Near Little Neston
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Little Neston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- The Towers - 0.55 km
- Windle Hall - 0.67 km
- Quarry Lodge - 0.75 km
- 26 and 28, the Green - 0.84 km
- 20, the Green - 0.88 km
- Hope Cottages - 0.9 km
- Hawthorne Cottage - 0.9 km
- 1-6, Victoria Road - 0.91 km
- The White House - 0.93 km
- Hinderton Hall - 0.95 km
- The Rocklands - 1.0 km
- Back Lodge - 1.01 km
- Glenton House - 1.1 km
- Lodge Approximately 250 Metres to North West of Hinderton Hall - 1.1 km
- Newstead House - 1.26 km
Little Neston Today
Today Little Neston lies within the administrative area of Neston, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,390 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 Little Neston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [Little] Neston
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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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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