Wennington in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Wennington is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Wennington 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 Wennington.
Listed Buildings Near Wennington
Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of Wennington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Wennington Hall - 0.1 km
- Oak Cottage and Garden Cottage and Former Barn Adjoining - 0.41 km
- Oak Cottage - 0.48 km
- Pound on North-east Side of Wennington Bridge - 0.49 km
- Wennington Bridge - 0.5 km
- Wenning Cottage - 0.52 km
- Cattle Pens at Moss House - 0.52 km
- Boundary Stone - 0.54 km
- Station House - 0.55 km
- Station Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining to East - 0.56 km
- Former Corn and Saw Mill With Smithy at Moss House - 0.57 km
- Ridleys - 0.98 km
- Tatham Bridge Inn - 1.02 km
- Bridge Inn Cottage - 1.03 km
- Goose House Approximately 15 Metres South West of Blands Farmhouse - 1.21 km
- Blands Farmhouse - 1.21 km
- Wall Surrounding Sunken Garden Approximately 30 Metres South of Blands Farmhouse, With Tunnel Entrances - 1.24 km
- Clintsfield Farmhouse and Farm Buildings Adjoining - 1.24 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Wennington
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Wennington:
- Clintsfield Colliery - 1.5 km
Wennington Today
Today Wennington lies within the administrative area of Lancaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 118 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 Wennington on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Tatham - 1.4 km SW
- Melling - 2.2 km NW
- Cantsfield - 2.2 km NE
- High and Low Bentham - 3.2 km E
- Tunstall - 3.2 km N
- Arkholme - 3.6 km NW
Heritage Around Wennington
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.
© Karl and Ali · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · 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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