Ollerton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Ollerton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bucklow in Cheshire. The survey assessed Ollerton at 4.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Ollerton supported a recorded population of 8 smallholders, 15 freemanmen, working 4 ploughs between them.
The survey lists 2 manors at Ollerton under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.
Resources Recorded at Ollerton (1086)
- Woodland: 6 pigs
Other Settlements in Bucklow
- Appleton
- Ashley
- Aston [by Budworth]
- Aston [by Sutton]
- Bartington
- Clifton
- Dunham [Massey]
- Eanley
- Grappenhall
- Lymm
- Mobberley
- Northenden
- Norton
- Tatton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Ollerton 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 Ollerton.
Listed Buildings Near Ollerton
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Ollerton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Manor Farmhouse - 0.12 km
- Bryn-y-baer Lodge - 0.25 km
- Mile Post - 0.37 km
- Ollerton House - 0.43 km
- Stables to Right of Ollerton House and Attached Garden Wall - 0.44 km
- Gazebo and Attached Garden Wall at Ollerton House - 0.45 km
- Lodge to Ollerton Grange - 0.63 km
- Kerfield Lodge - 0.68 km
- Ollerton Grange - 0.78 km
- Ollerton Lodge - 1.03 km
- Ollerton End and Ollerton Hall - 1.03 km
- Ollerton School House - 1.09 km
- Oak Farm House - 1.19 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Ollerton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Ollerton:
Ollerton Today
Today Ollerton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 391 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 Ollerton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Knutsford - 2.8 km NW
- Chapmonswiche - 2.8 km SE
- Warford - 3.2 km E
- Nether and Over Peover - 3.6 km SW
- Mobberley - 4.1 km N
- Snelson - 4.2 km SE
Heritage Around Ollerton
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.
© Anthony O'Neil · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Anthony O'Neil · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Ian Warburton · 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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