Clotton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Clotton, entered under the hundred of Rushton in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Rushton
- Alpraham
- Alretone
- Ashton
- Beeston
- Bunbury and [Lower] Bunbury
- Burton
- Cocle
- Iddinshall
- Opetone
- Oulton
- Over
- Peckforton
- Rushton
- Spurstow
The Meaning of the Name
The name Clotton 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 Clotton.
Listed Buildings Near Clotton
Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of Clotton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Tollemache Farmhouse - 0.37 km
- Townhouse Farmhouse - 0.38 km
- Holly Bank Farmhouse - 0.42 km
- Large L Shaped Farmbuilding to Rear of Clotton Hall - 0.44 km
- Holly Cottage - 0.45 km
- Clotton Hall - 0.46 km
- Stables 20 Metres South of Wynnstay Farmhouse - 0.51 km
- Wynnstay Farmhouse - 0.52 km
- Clotton Cottage - 0.56 km
- Iddenshall Hall - 0.64 km
- Brook House Farmhouse - 0.81 km
- Common House Farmhouse With Pump and Former Pigsty to Rear - 0.95 km
- Barn North East of Common Farmhouse - 0.97 km
- Drifthouse North of Common House Farmhouse - 0.98 km
- Brook Cottage - 1.04 km
- Yewtree Farmhouse and East Front Garden Wall - 1.16 km
- Hoofield Hall - 1.23 km
- Roadside Barn 40 Metres West of Hoofield Hall - 1.25 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Clotton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Clotton:
- Iddinshall Hall moated site - 1.12 km
Clotton Today
Today Clotton lies within the administrative area of Clotton Hoofield.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Iddinshall - 1.4 km SE
- Burton - 2.0 km W
- Alretone - 2.8 km NE
- Tarporley - 3.2 km E
- Stapleford - 4.1 km W
- Willington - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Clotton
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.
© Stephen Charles · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Styles · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Felix Hemsted · 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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