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PLACENAME: Saughall: Hall were sallows or willow shrubs grew. Willow Nook. From salh and halh. Saligh 1249; Salghale 1309; Salgham 1385; Saughoughe 1546. Massie: manor held by Hamo de Mascy.
A wooden peg windmill (16th century) stood about a mile north of the settlement until it was demolished c1875. Photograph of Saughall Massie village © Sue Adair. Medieval field strips of ridges and furrows remain to the west of the settlement. Areas of long narrow field strips were recorded in the north-west of the settlement on the 1842 Tithe map. Some of these are still extant in the present field divisions. Back to the top | Back up to West Wirral | Back up to Merseyside |
