The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Sproston, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Middlewich

The Meaning of the Name

The name Sproston 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 Sproston.

Listed Buildings Near Sproston

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Sproston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Cotton Hall - 1.22 km

Grade II

Round House - 0.79 km

Sproston Today

Today Sproston lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 266 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 Sproston on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Kinderton - 1.4 km SW
Cranage - 2.2 km NE
Byley - 2.2 km NW
Croxton - 3.0 km W
Middlewich - 3.2 km W
Newton - 3.6 km SW

Heritage Around Sproston

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.

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Sproston in the Domesday Book (1086)