Tattenhall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Tattenhall is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, 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 origin of the name Tattenhall 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 Tattenhall.
Listed Buildings Near Tattenhall
Historic England records 22 listed buildings within about a mile of Tattenhall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Alban - 0.15 km
- Tattenhall Hall - 0.26 km
Grade II
- National Westminster Bank and House Adjoining to the South - 0.07 km
- Conifers the Cottage - 0.08 km
- Office Premises of Calypso Company Limited - 0.08 km
- The Mount - 0.08 km
- Rock Bank Rock Cottage - 0.08 km
- St Albans St Albans House - 0.09 km
- Medway House - 0.1 km
- Olympus House - 0.1 km
- War Memorial - 0.13 km
- Sundial in Church of St Alban’s Churchyard - 0.14 km
- Laurel Bank - 0.2 km
- Gate Piers and Wing Walls to Tattenhall Hall - 0.21 km
- Rosebank - 0.22 km
- The Rookery - 0.3 km
- Greengates - 0.31 km
- Rose Corner - 0.32 km
- Claremont - 0.33 km
- Haybarn 75 Metres South East of Tattenhall Hall - 0.34 km
- Greenbank - 0.53 km
- Russia Hall - 1.17 km
Tattenhall Today
Today Tattenhall lies within the administrative area of Tattenhall and District, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,079 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 Tattenhall on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Tattenhall
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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© John S Turner · 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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