Rushton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Rushton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 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
- Oulton
- Over
- Peckforton
- Spurstow
The Meaning of the Name
The name Rushton 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 Rushton.
Listed Buildings Near Rushton
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Rushton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Park House - 0.62 km
- Park Gates Farm Cottages - 0.66 km
- Lower House Farmhouse - 0.9 km
- Parkwall Cottage - 0.92 km
- Eaton House - 1.13 km
- Well House Farmhouse - 1.22 km
- The Village Well - 1.23 km
- Eaton Smithy - 1.24 km
- Oak Tree Farmhouse - 1.24 km
- Silver Birches - 1.26 km
- Oak Tree Farmhouse - 1.26 km
- Baytree House - 1.27 km
- Church Cottage - 1.29 km
- The Old School House - 1.29 km
- Village Cross - 1.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Rushton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Rushton:
Rushton Today
Today Rushton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 516 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 Rushton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Oulton - 1.4 km NE
- Little Budworth - 2.2 km NE
- Tarporley - 3.2 km W
- Tilstone Fearnall - 3.6 km SW
- Alpraham - 4.0 km S
- Tiverton - 4.2 km SW
Heritage Around Rushton
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.
© Mike Grose · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen Charles · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Humphrey Bolton · 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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