Radcliffe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Radcliffe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Salford in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Salford
The Meaning of the Name
The name Radcliffe is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word clif, a cliff or steep slope. 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 slope’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Radcliffe.
Listed Buildings Near Radcliffe
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Radcliffe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Radcliffe Tower - 0.98 km
- Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew - 1.1 km
Grade II*
- Radcliffe War Memorial - 0.25 km
Grade II
- Church of St Thomas and St John - 0.26 km
- Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal Milestone at 10 3/4 miles from Manchester - 0.57 km
- Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal Milestone at 10 miles from Manchester - 0.72 km
- Outwood Viaduct - 0.88 km
- Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal Milestone at 11 miles from Manchester - 0.92 km
- Tythe Barn - 0.93 km
- Scotsen Fold Farmhouse - 0.99 km
- Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal Milestone at 9 3/4 miles from Manchester - 1.01 km
- Stand Lodge - 1.18 km
- Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal Milestone at 11 1/4 miles from Manchester - 1.27 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Radcliffe
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Radcliffe:
Radcliffe Today
Today Radcliffe lies within the administrative area of Bury, and the settlement recorded a population of 29,950 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 Radcliffe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Salford - 9.8 km SE
- Manchester - 10.3 km SE
Heritage Around Radcliffe
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.
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Keith Williamson · 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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