Wybunbury appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Warmundestrou

The Meaning of the Name

The name Wybunbury 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 Wybunbury.

Listed Buildings Near Wybunbury

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

Grade II*

Tower of Former Church of St Chad - 0.58 km

Grade II

Thatchers Cottage - 0.37 km
Delves Church of England School - 0.41 km
Wybunbury War Memorial - 0.45 km
Rose Cottage - 0.56 km
East and West Lodges Gates and Piers - 0.57 km
The Cottage - 0.57 km
The Swan Inn - 0.57 km
The Cliffe - 0.89 km
Grove House - 1.12 km
The Poplars - 1.17 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Wybunbury

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Wybunbury:

Site of the church of St Chad - 0.59 km
Moated site 300m SE of St Chad’s Church - 0.61 km
Hall Bank moated site, Wybunbury - 0.79 km

Wybunbury Today

Today Wybunbury lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,626 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 Wybunbury on Wikipedia .