Mottram St Andrew in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Mottram St Andrew is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamestan in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Hamestan
- Adlington
- Bosley
- Bramhall
- Bredbury
- Butley
- Capesthorne
- Cheadle
- Chelford
- Cranage
- Gawsworth
- Henbury
- Hollingworth
- Hungrewenitune
- Kermincham
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Mottram St Andrew 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 Mottram St Andrew.
Listed Buildings Near Mottram St Andrew
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Mottram St Andrew. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Mottram Hall Hotel - 0.08 km
- Mottram Old Hall - 0.42 km
- Willot Hall - 0.85 km
Grade II
- Mottram Hall Farmhouse - 0.41 km
- Woodside Farmhouse - 0.72 km
- Wing Walls, Railings, Gate Piers and Gates to Mottram Hall Hotel - 0.73 km
- Cherry Tree - 0.73 km
- Mill House Farm - 0.82 km
- Barn and Cottage 40 Metres East of Willot Hall - 0.86 km
- Keeper’s Close - 0.88 km
- St Andrews Cottage - 0.88 km
- Mottram Cross - 1.1 km
- Bullshead Farmhouse - 1.16 km
- Legh Hall - 1.24 km
- Legh Hall Cottage - 1.25 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Mottram St Andrew
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Mottram St Andrew:
Mottram St Andrew Today
Today Mottram St Andrew lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 655 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 Mottram St Andrew on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Hungrewenitune - 2.8 km SE
- Adlington - 3.2 km E
- Butley - 3.6 km SE
- Over Alderley - 3.6 km SW
- Nether Alderley - 5.0 km SW
- Bramhall - 5.1 km N
Heritage Around Mottram [St Andrew]
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.
© Peter Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Bond · 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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