Great and Little Sutton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Great and Little Sutton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire. The survey assessed Great and Little Sutton at 11.0 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Great and Little Sutton supported a recorded population of 12 villagers, 8 smallholders, 3 slaves, 4 freemanmen, working 7 ploughs between them.
The survey records Great and Little Sutton’s value at 4.25 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
The survey lists 2 manors at Great and Little Sutton 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.
Resources Recorded at Great and Little Sutton (1086)
- Mills: 2 mills (valued at 7d)
- Meadow: 12 None
Other Settlements in Willaston
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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