Waverton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Waverton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Duddeston

• Bettisfield
• Bickerton
• Bickley
• Boughton
• Broxton
• Burwardestone
• Burwardsley and [Higher] Burwardsley
• Caldecott
• Calvintone
• Cheaveley
• Cholmondeley
• Chowley
• Christleton
• Clutton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Waverton 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 Waverton.

Listed Buildings Near Waverton

Historic England records 17 listed buildings within about a mile of Waverton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of St Peter - 0.42 km

Grade II

• Canal Bridge no 117, Salmons Bridge - 0.05 km
• The Waverton Men’s Institute and Attached Caretaker’s House - 0.39 km
• Church House Farmhouse - 0.4 km
• Church Cottages Grayrigg - 0.44 km
• Waverton War Memorial - 0.44 km
• Sundial in the Churchyard of St Peter - 0.45 km
• Walls, Gatepiers and Gates to the Churchyard of St Peter - 0.45 km
• School and Schoolmaster’s House - 0.46 km
• The Old Post Office Cottage - 0.48 km
• Church Cottages Sandcroft - 0.48 km
• Canal Bridge no 118, Davies’s Bridge - 0.5 km
• Castleview Church Cottages - 0.5 km
• Canal Bridge no 116, Faulkners Bridge - 0.61 km
• Greenlooms - 1.2 km
• Farmbuildings 10 Metres East of Greenlooms - 1.22 km
• Victoria Mill - 1.27 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Waverton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Waverton:

• Roman camp 50m south of Elm Bank - 1.52 km

Waverton Today

Today Waverton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,555 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 Waverton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Saighton - 2.2 km SW
• Stapleford - 2.2 km NE
• Hatton - 2.2 km SE
• Golborne - 3.0 km S
• Christleton - 3.6 km NW
• Burton - 4.0 km E