Rostherne in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Rostherne, entered under the hundred of Tunendune in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Tunendune

• Alretunstall
• Antrobus
• Baguley
• Bowdon
• Chapmonswiche
• Cogshall
• Dutton
• Hale
• Halton
• Knutsford
• Mere
• Middle Aston
• Millington
• Sinderland

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Rostherne 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 Rostherne.

Listed Buildings Near Rostherne

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Rostherne. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Mary - 0.4 km

Grade II

• Laundry Building - 0.2 km
• Ivy Cottages - 0.22 km
• Simpson Tomb St Marys Church - 0.37 km
• Sundial in St Mary’s Churchyard - 0.4 km
• Hill Farmhouse - 0.42 km
• Cicely Mill - 0.75 km
• Rostherne Lodge - 0.79 km
• Mere Covert Cottage - 1.14 km
• Dale Cottage - 1.29 km

Rostherne Today

Today Rostherne lies within the administrative area of Millington and Rostherne, and the settlement recorded a population of 145 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 Rostherne on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Tatton - 2.0 km S
• Millington - 2.2 km NW
• Mere - 2.8 km SW
• Ashley - 3.2 km E
• Bowdon - 3.2 km N
• Over Tabley - 3.6 km SW