The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Thurstaston, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Willaston

The Meaning of the Name

The name Thurstaston is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead 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 farmstead’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Thurstaston

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Thurstaston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Thurstaston Hall - 0.62 km
Church of St Bartholomew - 0.66 km

Grade II

Tower of Former Church of St Bartholomew Approximately 30 Metres to South West of Present Church - 0.62 km
Sundial Approximately 40 Metres to South of St Bartholomews Church - 0.64 km
Former cattle sheds incorporating smithy and implement shed at Dawpool Farm - 0.67 km
Gatepiers to North of Thurstaston Hall - 0.67 km
Thurstaston War Memorial - 0.68 km
Old School House - 0.69 km
Former barn and granary to Dawpool Farm - 0.7 km
The Clock Tower - 0.75 km
The Old Farm - 0.75 km
South Lodge With Attached Gates and Gate Piers - 0.79 km
Oldfield Farmhouse - 1.12 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Thurstaston

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

Irby Hall moated site, Wirral - 1.32 km

Thurstaston Today

Today Thurstaston lies within the administrative area of Wirral, and the settlement recorded a population of 160 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Thurstaston on Wikipedia .