Spurstow in the Domesday Book (1086)
Spurstow is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 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
- Rushton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Spurstow is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word stōw, a place of assembly or holy site. 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 holy place’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Spurstow.
Listed Buildings Near Spurstow
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Spurstow. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Peckforton Hall - 1.11 km
Grade II
- The Butlands - 0.21 km
- Outbuilding West of Stone Cottage - 0.45 km
- Wood Cottages - 0.58 km
- The Cottage - 0.69 km
- Haycroft - 0.77 km
- Green Butts - 0.81 km
- Shippon East of Green Butts - 0.82 km
- Talbarn (Part to South) - 0.93 km
- Dolphin Cottage - 1.0 km
- Farm Building South East of Peckforton Hall - 1.05 km
- Spurstow Smithy - 1.06 km
- Rowton Cottage - 1.14 km
- Farm Building West of Brownhills (North Section Only) - 1.16 km
- Spurstow Hall Cottages - 1.19 km
- Brown Hills - 1.2 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Spurstow
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Spurstow:
Spurstow Today
Today Spurstow lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 357 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 Spurstow on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Bunbury and Lower Bunbury - 1.4 km NE
- Peckforton - 2.0 km W
- Beeston - 2.8 km NW
- Burwardsley and Higher Burwardsley - 3.0 km W
- Tiverton - 4.0 km N
- Tilstone Fearnall - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Spurstow
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.
© Stephen Charles · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Espresso Addict · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bryan Pready · 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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