Wharton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Wharton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Middlewich
- Alsager
- Bostock
- Brereton
- Byley
- Clive
- Congleton
- Croxton
- Davenham
- Davenport
- Goostrey
- Hassall
- Kinderton
- Lach [Dennis]
- Leftwich
The Meaning of the Name
The name Wharton 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 Wharton.
Listed Buildings Near Wharton
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Wharton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Wharton War Memorial - 0.32 km
- 80, Wharton Road - 0.62 km
- Wharton Hall - 0.77 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Wharton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Wharton:
- Bostock Hall moated site. - 1.48 km
Wharton Today
Today Wharton lies within the administrative area of Winsford.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Wharton
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.
© Eirian Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Harrison · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Marten · 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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