Somerford in the Domesday Book (1086)
Somerford appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Middlewich
- Alsager
- Bostock
- Brereton
- Byley
- Clive
- Congleton
- Croxton
- Davenham
- Davenport
- Goostrey
- Hassall
- Kinderton
- Lach [Dennis]
- Leftwich
The Meaning of the Name
The name Somerford is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Somerford.
Listed Buildings Near Somerford
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Somerford. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Chapel at Somerford Hall - 0.63 km
Grade II
- Farm Buildings East of Swettenham Hall - 1.21 km
- Swettenham Hall - 1.25 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Somerford
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Somerford:
Somerford Today
Today Somerford lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 194 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 Somerford Booths on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Davenport - 1.4 km NW
- Somerford Booths - 2.0 km E
- Kermincham - 2.8 km NW
- Brereton - 3.2 km W
- Marton - 4.2 km NE
- Newbold Astbury - 5.0 km SE
Heritage Around Somerford
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.
© Colin Park · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Lyn Haigh · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Robinson · 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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