Stapleford in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Stapleford, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Duddeston
- Bettisfield
- Bickerton
- Bickley
- Boughton
- Broxton
- Burwardestone
- Burwardsley and [Higher] Burwardsley
- Caldecott
- Calvintone
- Cheaveley
- Cholmondeley
- Chowley
- Christleton
- Clutton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Stapleford 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 Stapleford.
Listed Buildings Near Stapleford
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Stapleford. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Stapleford Hall - 0.39 km
- Sundial in Front of Stapleford Hall - 0.39 km
- Barn 25 Metres East of Stapleford Hall - 0.42 km
- Farmbuildings 10 Metres East of Greenlooms - 1.16 km
- Greenlooms - 1.18 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Stapleford
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Stapleford:
- Foulk Stapleford moated site - 0.4 km
Stapleford Today
Today Stapleford lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 186 at the 2011 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 Bruen Stapleford on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Stapleford
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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© Andy Stephenson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Smith · 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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