Stanney and Little Stanney in the Domesday Book (1086)
Stanney and Little Stanney is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Willaston
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Stanney and Little Stanney 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 Stanney and Little Stanney.
Listed Buildings Near Stanney and Little Stanney
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Stanney and Little Stanney. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Yew Tree Farmhouse - 0.41 km
- Lime Tree Farmhouse and Attached Shippon - 0.5 km
- Shropshire Union Canal Weaver’s Bridge - 0.72 km
- Mason’s Bridge (140) - 0.73 km
- Rake Hall - 0.82 km
- Meadow Lane Bridge (139) - 0.94 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Stanney and Little Stanney
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Stanney and Little Stanney:
Stanney and Little Stanney Today
Today Stanney and Little Stanney lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 274 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 Little Stanney on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Croughton - 2.0 km S
- Thornton le Moors - 3.0 km E
- Wervin - 3.0 km S
- Wimbolds Trafford - 3.6 km SE
- Lea - 3.6 km SW
- Ince - 3.6 km NE
Heritage Around Stanney and [Little] Stanney
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.
© John Lord · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Whatley · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Lord · 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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