Wettenhall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Wettenhall, 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 Wettenhall 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 Wettenhall.
Wettenhall Today
Today Wettenhall lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 224 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 Wettenhall on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Cholmondeston - 2.2 km SE
- Church Minshull - 4.1 km E
- Oulton - 4.2 km NW
- Rushton - 4.5 km NW
- Alpraham - 4.5 km SW
- Wardle - 4.5 km SW
Heritage Around Wettenhall
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.
© Philip Halling · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Duncan Pepper · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Duncan Pepper · 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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