Melling in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Melling, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in [West] Derby
- Ainsdale
- Allerton
- Argarmeles
- Aughton
- Barton
- Bootle
- Childwall
- Dalton
- Downholland
- Formby
- Halsall
- Hurlston
- Huyton
- Ince [Blundell]
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Melling 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 Melling.
Listed Buildings Near Melling
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Melling. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Barnes Farmhouse - 0.14 km
Grade II
- Former Vicarage - 0.45 km
- Barn to West of Melling House - 0.62 km
- Outbuildings and Pigsties to West of Melling House - 0.64 km
- Melling House - 0.66 km
- Church of St Thomas - 0.73 km
- Cross Base and Sundial Approximately 23.5 Metres South of Tower of Saint Thomas’s - 0.74 km
- Retaining Wall to Churchyard of St Thomas’ - 0.76 km
- The Parsonage - 0.87 km
- Bank Hall Farm - 0.94 km
- 38 40, North Park Road - 1.03 km
- Lytham House - 1.13 km
- 1 and 3, Mill Lane - 1.2 km
- Carters Arms Public House - 1.21 km
- 14 and 16, South Park Road - 1.24 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Melling
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Melling:
- Cross base 25m south of the tower of the parochial chapel, in the old churchyard - 0.74 km
- Standing cross 30m south of the tower of the parochial chapel, in the old churchyard - 0.74 km
Melling Today
Today Melling lies within the administrative area of Sefton, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,358 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 Melling on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Melling
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.
© Sue Adair · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Sue Adair · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© sandra Luckett · 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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