Ness in the Domesday Book (1086)
Ness appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Willaston
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Ness 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 Ness.
Listed Buildings Near Ness
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Ness. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Goldstraw Farmhouse and Attached Farm Building to North West - 0.63 km
- Lloyds Cottages - 0.65 km
- Laburnum Farmhouse and garden walls attached at front - 0.67 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk in Forecourt of Post Office (Post Office Not Included) - 0.68 km
- Barn to South of Burton Marsh Farmhouse (Burton Marsh Farmhouse Not Included) - 1.17 km
- Remains of Windmill - 1.21 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Ness
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Ness:
Ness Today
Today Ness lies within the administrative area of Neston, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,620 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 Ness on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Little Neston - 2.0 km N
- Great Neston - 2.2 km NW
- Puddington - 2.8 km SE
- Hadlow - 3.6 km NE
- Raby - 4.1 km N
- Leighton - 4.5 km NW
Heritage Around Ness
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
© Eirian Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Sue Adair · 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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