Aston by Sutton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Aston by Sutton, entered under the hundred of Bucklow in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Bucklow
- Appleton
- Ashley
- Aston [by Budworth]
- Bartington
- Clifton
- Dunham [Massey]
- Eanley
- Grappenhall
- Lymm
- Mobberley
- Northenden
- Norton
- Ollerton
- Tatton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Aston by Sutton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Aston by Sutton.
Listed Buildings Near Aston by Sutton
Historic England records 31 listed buildings within about a mile of Aston by Sutton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Peter - 0.01 km
Grade II
- Former Font of 1 Metre North of Nave of St Peters Church, Half Way Between North Porch and Chancel - 0.01 km
- Tomb Slab of John Egerton in St Peter’s Churchyard 5 Metres South of South East Corner of Nave - 0.01 km
- Tomb Slab of Edward and Mary Woodhouse 5 Metres South of Central Bay of Chancel - 0.01 km
- Table Tomb of Mary and William Okell 6 Metres South of West Bay of Nave of St Peters Church - 0.02 km
- Table Tomb of John Okell and Others St Peters Churchyard, 4 Metres South of West Bay of Nave - 0.02 km
- Table Tomb of James Okell and Others, St Peters Churchyard, 8 Metres South of West Bay of Nave - 0.02 km
- Table Tomb of John Burke in St Peter’s Churchyard 8 Metres South of East Bay of Nave - 0.02 km
- Aston War Memorial - 0.02 km
- Table Tomb of Mary Fletcher in St Peters Churchyard 12 Metres South of South West Corner of Church - 0.03 km
- Table Tomb of Elizabeth and Samuel Okell and Others in St Peter’s Churchyard 11 Metres South of West Bay of Nave - 0.03 km
- Churchyard Wall North and East of St Peter’s Church and Lychgate - 0.03 km
- Table Tomb of Mary and Robert Okell and Others in St Peter’s Churchyard and 9 Metres South of West Bay of Nave - 0.03 km
- Table Tomb of Roll Okell and Others in St Peter’s Churchyard 12 Metres South of South West Corner of Church - 0.03 km
- Churchyard Wall South of St Peter’s Church - 0.05 km
- Wall Around Aston Gardens - 0.12 km
- Aston Lodge - 0.3 km
- Aston Cross (Base and Shaft) - 0.31 km
- Sundial in Garden South of Aston Lodge - 0.32 km
- The Cottage - 0.35 km
- Gates Plinths and Railings at Top Lodge to Former Aston Hall - 0.46 km
- Well Approximately 250 Metres South of Aston Lodge - 0.47 km
- Top Lodge to Former Aston Hall (Known As the Monkey Lodge) - 0.48 km
- Coach House at Site of Aston Old Hall - 0.49 km
…and 7 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Aston by Sutton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Aston by Sutton:
- Dovecote at the site of Aston Old Hall, 40m east of Gamekeepers Cottage - 0.51 km
- Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 400m west of Sutton Fields Farm - 1.12 km
- Middleton moated monastic grange, eight fishponds and connecting channels - 1.39 km
- Daresbury - 1.43 km
Aston by Sutton Today
Today Aston by Sutton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 99 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 Aston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Aston [by Sutton]
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.
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© Colin Park · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Sue Adair · 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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