Romiley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamestan in Cheshire. The survey assessed Romiley at 5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Romiley supported a recorded population of 5 villagers, 10 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 5 ploughs between them.

The survey records Romiley’s value at 5 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Romiley (1086)

Pigs: 9
Horses (cobs): 2
Meadow: 40 acres
Woodland: 10 acres

Other Settlements in Hamestan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Romiley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Romiley.

Listed Buildings Near Romiley

Historic England records 20 listed buildings within about a mile of Romiley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*