Much Woolton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Much Woolton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, 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 name Much Woolton 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 Much Woolton.
Listed Buildings Near Much Woolton
Historic England records 128 listed buildings within about a mile of Much Woolton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Woolton Hall - 0.04 km
Grade II*
- Much Woolton Old School - 0.26 km
Grade II
- 7, Ashton Square - 0.1 km
- Woolton Hall Lodge - 0.1 km
- 1-6, Ashton Square - 0.12 km
- 51, Woolton Street - 0.13 km
- The Old House - 0.13 km
- 45 and 47, Woolton Street - 0.16 km
- 39, 41 and 43, Woolton Street - 0.19 km
- 37, Woolton Street - 0.19 km
- 35A, Woolton Street - 0.2 km
- 35, Woolton Street - 0.21 km
- Corporation Offices - 0.21 km
- Village Cross at Junction With Speke Road - 0.22 km
- Gateway to Woolton Hall Park - 0.25 km
- Woodleigh (former Lodge to Woolton Hall) - 0.28 km
- 12, High Street - 0.29 km
- Salisbury Farm Dairy - 0.29 km
- 8, High Street - 0.29 km
- 2-6, High Street - 0.29 km
- 2A, High Street - 0.29 km
- 10, High Street - 0.29 km
- Former Farm Building to Rear of Number 29 - 0.3 km
- 14 and 16, High Street - 0.33 km
…and 104 more listed structures in the area.
Much Woolton Today
Today Much Woolton lies within the administrative area of Liverpool, and the settlement recorded a population of 12,921 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 Woolton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Wibaldeslei - 1.0 km N
- Allerton - 1.4 km NW
- Little Woolton - 1.4 km NE
- Childwall - 3.0 km N
- Speke - 3.0 km S
- Tarbock - 4.1 km E
Heritage Around [Much] Woolton
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
© Peter Tarleton · 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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