The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Walgherton, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire. The survey assessed Walgherton at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Walgherton supported a recorded population of 8 villagers, working 2 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Walgherton’s value at 16d, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

Other Settlements in Warmundestrou

The Meaning of the Name

The name Walgherton 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 Walgherton.

Listed Buildings Near Walgherton

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

Grade II

East and West Lodges Gates and Piers - 0.48 km
The Cottage - 0.53 km
Thatchers Cottage - 0.63 km
Hatherton Lodge - 0.95 km
Delves Church of England School - 0.99 km
The Cliffe - 1.22 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Walgherton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Walgherton:

Moated site 300m SE of St Chad’s Church - 1.27 km
Site of the church of St Chad - 1.47 km
Hall Bank moated site, Wybunbury - 1.55 km

Walgherton Today

Today Walgherton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 138 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 Walgherton on Wikipedia .