Tittenley in the Domesday Book (1086)
Tittenley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in SHR. The survey assessed Tittenley at 0.2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Tittenley supported a recorded population of 6 villagers, 4 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 6 ploughs between them.
The survey records Tittenley’s value at 2 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
Resources Recorded at Tittenley (1086)
- Cattle: 12
- Sheep: 35
- Meadow: 4 acres
- Woodland: 24 acres
Other Settlements in Warmundestrou
- Acton
- Aston
- Aston [juxta Mondrem]
- Audlem
- Austerson
- Baddiley
- Barthomley
- Basford
- Batherton
- Blakenhall
- Broomhall
- Buerton
- Cholmondeston
- Chorley
The Meaning of the Name
The name Tittenley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Tittenley.
Listed Buildings Near Tittenley
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Tittenley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Retaining Wall Approximately 5 Metres to South West of Number 2, Tittenley Lodge - 0.34 km
- Number 2, Tittenley Lodge - 0.34 km
- Retaining Wall Approximately 5 Metres to South East of Number 1, Tittenley Lodge - 0.34 km
- Number 1, Tittenley Lodge - 0.35 km
- Rhiews Farmhouse - 0.65 km
- Estate Bridge Approximately 550 Metres to North West of Numbers 1 and 2, Tittenley Lodge (That Part in Adderley Cp) Estate Bridge Approximately 550 Metres to North West of Numbers 1 and 2, Tittenley Lodge (That Part in Moreton Say Cp) - 0.9 km
- New Street Lane Farmhouse - 1.12 km
- Nobridge Farmhouse - 1.14 km
Tittenley Today
Today Tittenley lies within the administrative area of Adderley.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Tittenley
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.
© Roger D Kidd · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger D Kidd · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andrew Darge · 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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