Winshill in the Domesday Book (1086)

Winshill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Offlow in STS.

Other Settlements in Offlow

• Agardsley
• Aldridge
• Alrewas
• Barr
• Barton [-under-Needwood]
• Bescot
• Bloxwich and [Little] Bloxwich
• Bradley and [Lower] Bradley
• Branston
• Burton [-upon-Trent]
• Clifton [Campville]
• Croxall
• Draycott [-in-the-Clay]
• Drayton [Bassett]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Winshill 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 Winshill.

Listed Buildings Near Winshill

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Winshill. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Church of St Mark - 0.14 km
• Milepost in Stone Wall - 0.47 km
• Burton Mill - 0.68 km
• Mill Building at West of Burton Mill - 0.69 km
• Stone Archways at Gateway to Cemetery - 1.13 km
• Nunneley House - 1.24 km
• Trent House - 1.25 km
• Britannic Assurance Building - 1.26 km
• Queens Hotel - 1.28 km

Winshill Today

Today Winshill lies within the administrative area of East Staffordshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 8,387 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 Winshill on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Stapenhill - 1.4 km SW
• Newton Solney - 2.8 km NE
• Bretby - 3.0 km E
• Stanton - 3.0 km S
• Drakelowe - 3.6 km SW
• Hearthcote - 4.5 km SE