Tilstone Fearnall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Tilstone Fearnall, entered under the hundred of Rushton in Cheshire. The survey assessed Tilstone Fearnall at 2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Tilstone Fearnall supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, 3 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 2 ploughs between them.
The survey puts Tilstone Fearnall’s value at 1 shilling, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.
Resources Recorded at Tilstone Fearnall (1086)
- Meadow: 2 acres
Other Settlements in Rushton
- Alpraham
- Alretone
- Ashton
- Beeston
- Bunbury and [Lower] Bunbury
- Burton
- Clotton
- Cocle
- Iddinshall
- Opetone
- Oulton
- Over
- Peckforton
- Rushton
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Tilstone Fearnall 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 Tilstone Fearnall.
Listed Buildings Near Tilstone Fearnall
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Tilstone Fearnall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Church of St Jude - 0.01 km
- The Vicarage - 0.08 km
- Tilstone Lodge - 0.65 km
- Icehouse at Tilstone Lodge - 0.7 km
- Tilstone Hall Folly - 0.76 km
- Four Lane Ends Farmhouse - 0.99 km
- Tilstone Fearnall Bridge - 1.08 km
- Tilstone Fearnall Mill - 1.09 km
- Tilstone Fearnall Lock - 1.09 km
- Linkman’s Hut Adjacent Tilstone Fearnall Lock - 1.1 km
- Beeston Stone Lock - 1.25 km
- Linkman’s Hut Adjacent Beeston Stone Lock - 1.26 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Tilstone Fearnall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Tilstone Fearnall:
- Garden gateway at Tilstone Hall 130m south of Tilstone Hall Farm - 0.76 km
- Robin Hood’s Tump bowl barrow - 1.03 km
- Beeston cast iron lock - 1.32 km
Tilstone Fearnall Today
Today Tilstone Fearnall lies within the administrative area of Tiverton and Tilstone Fearnall, and the settlement recorded a population of 150 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 Tilstone Fearnall on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Tiverton - 1.0 km W
- Alpraham - 2.2 km SE
- Tarporley - 2.2 km NW
- Bunbury and Lower Bunbury - 3.0 km S
- Iddinshall - 3.6 km NW
- Beeston - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around Tilstone [Fearnall]
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.
© David Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Brian Tamplin · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Jeff Buck · 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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