The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Burton, entered under the hundred of Rushton in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Rushton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Burton 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 Burton.

Listed Buildings Near Burton

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Burton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Burton Hall - 0.5 km

Grade II

Garden Wall and Gateway at Burton Hall - 0.53 km
Shippon 25 Metres North West of Leadgate Farmhouse - 0.88 km
Brereton Park Farmhouse - 0.99 km
Memorial Stone 250 Metres North West of Brereton Park Farmhouse - 1.01 km
Brook Cottage - 1.12 km
Roadside Barn 40 Metres West of Hoofield Hall - 1.14 km
Hoofield Hall - 1.18 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Burton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Burton:

Lower Huxley Hall moated site - 1.44 km

Burton Today

Today Burton lies within the administrative area of Duddon and Burton, and the settlement recorded a population of 50 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Burton on Wikipedia .