Wimbolds Trafford in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Ruloe

• Aldredelie
• Alvanley
• Conersley
• Done
• Dunham [on the Hill]
• Eddisbury
• Elton
• Frodsham
• Hartford
• Helsby
• Ince
• Kingsley
• Manley
• Thornton [le Moors]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Wimbolds Trafford is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Wimbolds Trafford.

Listed Buildings Near Wimbolds Trafford

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Wimbolds Trafford. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Trafford Hall With Attached Service Wing and Carriage House - 0.61 km

Grade II

• Windsor Cottage - 0.46 km
• Barn at Manor Farm - 0.53 km
• Park Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings - 0.62 km
• The Lodge - 0.71 km

Wimbolds Trafford Today

Today Wimbolds Trafford lies within the administrative area of Mickle Trafford and District, and the settlement recorded a population of 212 at the 2011 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 Wimbolds Trafford on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Bridge Trafford - 1.4 km SE
• Picton - 1.4 km SW
• Thornton le Moors - 2.0 km N
• Croughton - 3.0 km W
• Dunham on the Hill - 3.0 km E
• Mickle Trafford - 3.0 km S