Wardle in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Wardle, entered under the hundred of Rushton in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Rushton

• Alpraham
• Alretone
• Ashton
• Beeston
• Bunbury and [Lower] Bunbury
• Burton
• Clotton
• Cocle
• Iddinshall
• Opetone
• Oulton
• Over
• Peckforton
• Rushton

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Wardle 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 Wardle.

Listed Buildings Near Wardle

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

Grade II*

• Wardle Old Hall - 0.68 km

Grade II

• Farm Buildings North of Wardle Bridge Farmhouse - 0.26 km
• Wardle Bridge Farmhouse - 0.26 km
• Wardle Pinfold - 0.46 km
• Roving Bridge - 0.84 km
• Middlewich Branch Canal Canal House, Barbridge Junction at Sj 613 569 - 0.88 km
• Middlewich Branch Canal Rutter’s Bridge at Sj 616 572 - 1.12 km
• Stoke Cottage - 1.19 km

Wardle Today

Today Wardle lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 186 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 Wardle on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Alpraham - 2.8 km NW
• Cholmondeston - 3.6 km NE
• Bunbury and Lower Bunbury - 4.0 km W
• Poole - 4.1 km E
• Acton - 4.5 km SE
• Wettenhall - 4.5 km NE