Warford in the Domesday Book (1086)

Warford appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Tunendune in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Tunendune

• Alretunstall
• Antrobus
• Baguley
• Bowdon
• Chapmonswiche
• Cogshall
• Dutton
• Hale
• Halton
• Knutsford
• Mere
• Middle Aston
• Millington
• Rostherne

The Meaning of the Name

The name Warford is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Warford

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

Grade II*

• Baptist Chapel - 1.13 km

Grade II

• Lodge to Ancoats Hospital - 0.07 km
• Ancoats Hospital - 0.07 km
• The Wheelwright’s Shop - 0.62 km
• Kell Green Hall Farmhouse - 0.68 km
• Manor Farmhouse - 1.05 km

Warford Today

Today Warford lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 162 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 Little Warford on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Ollerton - 3.2 km W
• Chelford - 3.2 km S
• Chapmonswiche - 3.2 km S
• Mobberley - 3.6 km NW
• Snelson - 4.0 km S
• Nether Alderley - 4.1 km E