Tushingham in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Tushingham, 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 name Tushingham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead 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 homestead’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Tushingham

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Tushingham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Chapel of St Chad - 0.24 km

Grade II

• Hearse House in the Grounds of St Chad’s Chapel - 0.22 km
• Barhill Farmhouse - 0.27 km
• Church of St Chad - 0.36 km
• Pearl Farmhouse - 0.59 km
• The Blue Bell Inn - 1.08 km
• Bell Farmhouse - 1.12 km
• Yew Tree Farmhouse - 1.13 km

Tushingham Today

Today Tushingham lies within the administrative area of Tushingham cum Grindley.

Read more about modern Tushingham on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Wirswall - 2.8 km SE
• Bickley - 2.8 km NE
• Marbury - 3.2 km E
• Norbury - 3.2 km E
• Malpas - 4.1 km W
• Hampton - 4.2 km NW