Winnington in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Winnington 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 Winnington 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 Winnington.
Listed Buildings Near Winnington
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Winnington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Winnington Hall - 0.3 km
Grade II
- Rose Cottage - 0.23 km
- Brunner Mond and ICI Alkali Division War Memorial - 0.33 km
- Statue of Sir John Brunner in Front of Research Lab, Winnington Works - 0.41 km
- Statue of Ludwig Mond in Front of Research Lab, Winnington Works - 0.42 km
- Winnington Turn Bridge - 0.66 km
- 34,36,38,40 and 42, Runcorn Road - 0.91 km
- Trent and Mersey Canal Canal Milepost to Rear of Numbers 34-42 Runcorn Road at Sj 6370 7471 - 0.91 km
- Christ Church - 0.96 km
- Victoria Infirmary, Old Wing - 1.01 km
- Trent and Mersey Canal Eastern Entrance to the Barnton Tunnel - 1.11 km
- Gates and Gatepiers to Verdin Park - 1.2 km
- Milepost at Ngr 6492 7563 - 1.21 km
- Town Bridge Over Weaver Navigation, and Control Cabin - 1.25 km
- Uplands Farmhouse - 1.26 km
- Church of the Holy Trinity - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Winnington
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Winnington:
Winnington Today
Today Winnington lies within the administrative area of Northwich.
Read more about modern Winnington on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Winnington
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.
© Mike Harris · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Godfree · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Colin Wynne-Parle · 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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