Winwick is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Newton in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Newton

Newton [le Willows]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Winwick is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement. 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 specialised farm’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Winwick

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Winwick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Oswald - 0.42 km

Grade II

Travellers’ Rest stone at Swan Green - 0.32 km
Church House Farmhouse - 0.36 km
Arbury Farmhouse - 0.38 km
The Manor House - 0.47 km
Milestone - 0.52 km
Roman Catholic Church at Winwick Psychiatric Hospital - 0.58 km
Milestone - 0.77 km
Milestone - 0.95 km
Premises of Gordan Sheds - 1.24 km
Ivy House - 1.3 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Winwick

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

Bowl barrow west of Highfield Lane - 1.08 km

Winwick Today

Today Winwick lies within the administrative area of Warrington, and the settlement recorded a population of 4,899 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 Winwick on Wikipedia .