The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Tintwistle, entered under the hundred of Hamestan in Cheshire.

At the time of the survey, Tintwistle supported a recorded population of 5 villagers, 3 smallholders, working 2 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Tintwistle was worth 10d, up from 0d before the Conquest – which sets it apart from the many nearby villages left waste or devalued.

The survey lists 2 manors at Tintwistle under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Tintwistle (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 5d)
Churches: 1
Woodland: 1 league * 2 acres mixed measures

Other Settlements in Hamestan

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Tintwistle 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 Tintwistle.

Listed Buildings Near Tintwistle

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Tintwistle. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Ebenezer Chapel - 0.07 km
Sunday school and boundary wall - 0.33 km
The Old Workhouse - 0.34 km
Christ Church - 0.47 km
Lower Cross Farm (Number 107/107A) and Attached Barn - 1.22 km
Padfield - 1.23 km

Tintwistle Today

Today Tintwistle lies within the administrative area of High Peak, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,518 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 Tintwistle on Wikipedia .