Oulton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Oulton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Rushton in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Rushton
- Alpraham
- Alretone
- Ashton
- Beeston
- Bunbury and [Lower] Bunbury
- Burton
- Clotton
- Cocle
- Iddinshall
- Opetone
- Over
- Peckforton
- Rushton
- Spurstow
The Meaning of the Name
The name Oulton 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 Oulton.
Listed Buildings Near Oulton
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Oulton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Dodds Charity Alms Houses and Garden Wall - 0.89 km
- Monument to John Francis Egerton - 0.93 km
- Church of St Peter - 0.94 km
- Screen, Lodges and Gates at Oulton Park - 0.96 km
Grade II
- Farmbuilding C50 Yards to East of Stable Block - 0.25 km
- Stable Block - 0.3 km
- The Old Vicarage - 0.86 km
- Church View and Old Hall Cottage - 0.93 km
- Well House Farmhouse - 1.01 km
- Pinfold - 1.03 km
- Darley Hall Farmhouse - 1.18 km
- Park Gates Farm Cottages - 1.19 km
- Parkwall Cottage - 1.22 km
- Park House - 1.24 km
- Oulton Smithy - 1.26 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Oulton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Oulton:
- Darley Hall moated site - 1.14 km
Oulton Today
Today Oulton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Little Budworth - 1.0 km N
- Rushton - 1.4 km SW
- Wettenhall - 4.2 km SE
- Tarporley - 4.5 km SW
- Tilstone Fearnall - 5.0 km SW
- Alretone - 5.1 km W
Heritage Around Oulton
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.
© Stephen Charles · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mike Grose · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Lord · 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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