The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Claverton, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire. The survey assessed Claverton at 1.1 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Claverton supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, 1 smallholder, working 2 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Claverton was worth 2.06 shillings, up from 1 shilling before the Conquest – which sets it apart from the many nearby villages left waste or devalued.

The survey lists 2 manors at Claverton under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross

The Meaning of the Name

The name Claverton 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 Claverton.

Listed Buildings Near Claverton

Historic England records 39 listed buildings within about a mile of Claverton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Mary - 1.09 km

Grade II*

St Marys Church of England School - 0.99 km
Former Schoolmasters House With Storeshed and Domestic Offices Attached - 1.0 km

Grade II

Heronbridge - 0.79 km
Wrexham Road Farmhouse and Farmbuildings - 0.9 km
The Old Rectory - 0.93 km
Wall and Steps to Terrace in Front of St Mary’s School and School House - 1.0 km
Old Church Way the Cottage - 1.04 km
Remains of Former Church of St Mary - 1.04 km
Sun Houses - 1.04 km
Tomb of Edward George Hugh, Earl Grosvenor - 1.05 km
Former Institute (Now Office of Chartered Surveyor) - 1.07 km
Walls and Gates Between Old Church Lane and Old Churchyard - 1.07 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk, Hill Road - 1.07 km
Hill Road With Storeshed and Domestic Offices Attached - 1.08 km
Manor House - 1.08 km
Smithy Farm - 1.09 km
Church Villas and Linked Storshed and Domestic Offices - 1.1 km
Former Smithy, South of Smithy Farm - 1.11 km
Police House - 1.11 km
Post Office With Postmaster’s House and Attached House to Right - 1.12 km
Church House - 1.13 km
Walls and Piers to Front of Greenbank - 1.13 km
Shelter (At Junction With Paddock Road - Forming Island in Road) - 1.14 km

…and 15 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Claverton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 5 lie within roughly a mile of Claverton:

Heronbridge Roman site - 0.53 km
Moated site north-west of Mill Hill House Farm - 1.04 km
Motte and associated earthworks east of Old Rectory - 1.08 km
Moated site 180m W of Fir Tree Farm - 1.29 km
Huntington Hall moated site - 1.37 km

Claverton Today

Today Claverton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 7 at the 2001 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 Claverton on Wikipedia .