Marlston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Marlston is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross
The Meaning of the Name
The name Marlston 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 Marlston.
Listed Buildings Near Marlston
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Marlston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Wrexham Road Farmhouse and Farmbuildings - 0.45 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Marlston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Marlston:
- Moated site 180m W of Fir Tree Farm - 0.29 km
- Moated site north-west of Mill Hill House Farm - 1.04 km
- Heronbridge Roman site - 1.49 km
Marlston Today
Today Marlston lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 166 at the 2011 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 Marlston-cum-Lache on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Lache - 1.0 km W
- Claverton - 1.0 km E
- Eccleston - 2.2 km SE
- Handbridge - 2.2 km NE
- Overleigh - 2.2 km NE
- Netherleigh - 2.8 km NE
Heritage Around Marlston
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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© John S Turner · 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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