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

Other Settlements in Willaston

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Wervin 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 Wervin.

Listed Buildings Near Wervin

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Wervin. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Remains of Chapel West of Chapelhouse Farm - 0.54 km
Wervin Old Hall - 0.75 km
Chorlton Hall - 0.87 km
Chorlton Lodge Farmhouse - 0.99 km
Farmbuildings at Chorlton Lodge Farm - 0.99 km
Croughton Bridge (135) - 1.08 km
West Range of Former Stables at Oakfield, Chester Zoo - 1.24 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Wervin

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Wervin:

Chapel at Chapel House Farm 200m west of Wervin Old Hall - 0.54 km
Roman camp on Fox Covert Lane 650m north west of Picton Gorse - 1.59 km

Wervin Today

Today Wervin lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 119 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 Wervin on Wikipedia .