The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Wincham, entered under the hundred of Tunendune in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Tunendune

The Meaning of the Name

The name Wincham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead 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 homestead’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Wincham

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

Grade II

Trent and Mersey Canal Milepost North of Bridge Number 192 at Sj 6750 7528 - 0.21 km
Marston War Memorial - 0.48 km
Office in Works Yard, Lion Salt Works - 0.5 km
Engine Shed and Pump House at Lion Salt Works - 0.5 km
Pan Sheds and Stoves and Store Shed Behind Lion Salt Works - 0.51 km
Brunner Mond Lostock Gralam (Northwich) War Memorial - 1.14 km
Guidepost (Fingerpost), Higher Marston - 1.24 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Wincham

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Wincham:

Lion Salt Works and remains of part of the Alliance Salt Works - 0.49 km

Wincham Today

Today Wincham lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,055 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 Wincham on Wikipedia .