Upton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Upton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Willaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Upton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead 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 farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Upton.
Listed Buildings Near Upton
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Upton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of the Holy Cross - 1.16 km
Grade II
- Upton Hall - 0.83 km
- Church of St Mary - 0.88 km
- St Joseph’s Church - 0.89 km
- Upton Library - 1.19 km
- Rectory - 1.2 km
- The Manor - 1.22 km
- Gate Piers to the Manor - 1.23 km
- Former Barn to Rear of the Manor - 1.23 km
- Greasby Old Hall - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Upton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Upton:
- Standing cross in the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Cross at Woodchurch - 1.18 km
- Site of church and churchyard at Overchurch 875m north west of Upton Hall - 1.45 km
Upton Today
Today Upton lies within the administrative area of Wirral, and the settlement recorded a population of 16,130 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Upton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Upton
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.
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© Rosalind Mitchell · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Craine · 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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