Buerton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire. The survey assessed Buerton at 6 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Buerton supported a recorded population of 41 villagers, 8 smallholders, 8 slaves, working 23 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Buerton was worth 40 shillings, up from 30 shillings before the Conquest – one of the few settlements in the area to hold its value through the upheaval.

Resources Recorded at Buerton (1086)

Mills: 2 mills (valued at 6d)
Churches: 1
Meadow: 28 acres
Woodland: 100 swine render

Other Settlements in Warmundestrou

The Meaning of the Name

The name Buerton 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 Buerton.

Listed Buildings Near Buerton

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Buerton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Dairy House - 0.13 km
Barn at Dairy House - 0.14 km
Farm Building at Malt Kiln Farm - 0.21 km
Buerton Old Windmill - 0.52 km
Smithy House Farmhouse - 0.72 km

Buerton Today

Today Buerton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 552 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 Buerton on Wikipedia .