Dodleston

Other current and historical names

Doddleston
Dodestune

Built-Up Area: Dodleston
Parish/Community: Dodleston
Unitary Authority: Cheshire West and Chester
Region: North West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 53°8'37"N 2°57'21"W
Eastings/Northings: 336152, 361167
OS Grid: SJ361611
Mapcode Local: GBR 77.5VX3
Mapcode Global: WH88L.K7LQ

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Dodleston within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Dodleston in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Dodleston, par. and township, W. Cheshire and partly in Flintshire, 4½ m. SW. of Chester -- par., 4035 ac., pop. 800; township (in Cheshire), 1673ac., pop. 283.

Dodleston in the Domesday Book

A village in Ati's Cross hundred, in the county of Cheshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Edwin
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Osbern son of Tezzo
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Osbern son of Tezzo
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1086
- Households: 4 villagers; 3 smallholders; 15 burgesses; 3 other households
- Plough Teams: 1 ¹⁄₂ lord's ploughs; ¹⁄₂ men's plough (2 plough lands)
- Woodland: 1 league

British Place Names

Dodleston, Cheshire West and Chester

Dodleston is a village in Cheshire West and Chester

Dodleston in historic gazetteers

Dodleston in the Domesday Book