The settlement of Tatham is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Tatham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead 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 homestead’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Tatham

Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Tatham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St James - 0.06 km

Grade II

Old Rectory - 0.05 km
Tatham Bridge Inn - 0.65 km
Bridge Inn Cottage - 0.65 km
Ridleys - 0.8 km
Wenning Cottage - 1.04 km
Boundary Stone - 1.15 km
Wennington Bridge - 1.21 km
Pound on North-east Side of Wennington Bridge - 1.24 km
Station House - 1.28 km
Station Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining to East - 1.29 km
Oak Cottage and Garden Cottage and Former Barn Adjoining - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Tatham

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Tatham:

Prehistoric defended enclosure and six adjacent hut circles at Tatham Park - 1.13 km

Tatham Today

Today Tatham lies within the administrative area of Lancaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 419 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 Tatham on Wikipedia .