Stapeley in the Domesday Book (1086)

Stapeley is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Warmundestrou

• Acton
• Aston
• Aston [juxta Mondrem]
• Audlem
• Austerson
• Baddiley
• Barthomley
• Basford
• Batherton
• Blakenhall
• Broomhall
• Buerton
• Cholmondeston
• Chorley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Stapeley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Stapeley.

Listed Buildings Near Stapeley

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Stapeley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Oakfield - 0.36 km
• Yewtree Farmhouse - 0.9 km
• Hatherton House - 1.1 km
• Stapeley House - 1.13 km

Stapeley Today

Today Stapeley lies within the administrative area of Stapeley and District, and the settlement recorded a population of 4,181 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 Stapeley on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Austerson - 1.0 km W
• Batherton - 2.0 km W
• Wybunbury - 2.0 km E
• Walgherton - 2.2 km SE
• Hatherton - 2.2 km SE
• Shavington - 2.8 km NE