Meliden in the Domesday Book (1086)
Meliden appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, 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 Meliden 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 Meliden.
Meliden Today
Today Meliden lies within the administrative area of Q1813948, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,066 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 Meliden on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Gwaunysgor - 1.0 km E
- Prestatyn - 1.0 km N
- Golden Grove - 2.0 km E
- Dincolyn - 2.0 km S
- Rahop - 2.2 km SE
- Dyserth - 2.2 km SW
Heritage Around Meliden
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.
© Eirian Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Natalia A McKenzie · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Eirian Evans · 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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