Upholland in the Domesday Book (1086)
Upholland is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in [West] Derby
- Ainsdale
- Allerton
- Argarmeles
- Aughton
- Barton
- Bootle
- Childwall
- Dalton
- Downholland
- Formby
- Halsall
- Hurlston
- Huyton
- Ince [Blundell]
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Upholland 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 Upholland.
Listed Buildings Near Upholland
Historic England records 44 listed buildings within about a mile of Upholland. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Thomas the Martyr - 0.46 km
Grade II*
Grade II
- Dean Brook House - 0.33 km
- 4 and 6, School Lane - 0.36 km
- Holland Hall Hotel - 0.36 km
- 29 and 31, School Lane - 0.38 km
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School - 0.38 km
- The Owl Inn - 0.39 km
- Derby House - 0.41 km
- 57 and 59, School Lane - 0.41 km
- 30, Parliament Street - 0.44 km
- 47-53, Parliament Street - 0.45 km
- Coach House Rock House - 0.45 km
- Rothwell House - 0.46 km
- Wash House Approximately 5 Metres South West of Rothwell House - 0.47 km
- Stone Piers With Iron Lamp at Foot of Steps to Churchyard, St Thomas the Martyr - 0.47 km
- Conservative Club - 0.48 km
- Priory House - 0.49 km
- Former Old Dog Inn - 0.49 km
- Up Holland Priory Remains - 0.5 km
- Alma Hill Cottage Alma Hill Farmhouse - 0.53 km
- 22, Dingle Road - 0.63 km
- 321, Orrell Road - 0.64 km
- 29-41, Dingle Road - 0.67 km
…and 20 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Upholland
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Upholland:
- Up Holland Benedictine priory - 0.48 km
Upholland Today
Today Upholland lies within the administrative area of West Lancashire, and the settlement recorded a population of 7,578 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 Up Holland on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Dalton - 4.2 km NW
- Skelmersdale - 6.1 km W
- Lathom - 7.2 km NW
Heritage Around [Up]holland
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.
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gary Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gary Rogers · 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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