Domesday Book
Cheshire
Meincatis in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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HUNDRED: Ati's Cross
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COUNTY: Cheshire
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Meincatis, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Meincatis 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 Meincatis.
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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