Wrenbury in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Wrenbury, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Warmundestrou
- Acton
- Aston
- Aston [juxta Mondrem]
- Audlem
- Austerson
- Baddiley
- Barthomley
- Basford
- Batherton
- Blakenhall
- Broomhall
- Buerton
- Cholmondeston
- Chorley
The Meaning of the Name
The name Wrenbury is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word burh, a fortified place. 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 stronghold’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Wrenbury.
Listed Buildings Near Wrenbury
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Wrenbury. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Margaret - 0.38 km
- Wrenbury Church Bridge - 0.63 km
- Wrenbury Frith Bridge - 1.16 km
Grade II
- School - 0.21 km
- Hawk House - 0.25 km
- Railings, Gates and Gatepiers to Churchyard of St Margaret - 0.33 km
- Elm House - 0.34 km
- Cottage in the Churchyard of St Margaret - 0.36 km
- Wrenbury Mill Bridge - 0.48 km
- The Grange - 0.75 km
- Wrenbury Bridge - 0.83 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Wrenbury
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Wrenbury:
- Wrenbury wooden lifting bridge - 0.83 km
Wrenbury Today
Today Wrenbury lies within the administrative area of Wrenbury-cum-Frith.
Read more about modern Wrenbury on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Wrenbury
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.
© David Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Espresso Addict · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Espresso Addict · 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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