Hatherton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Hatherton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Warmundestrou

• Acton
• Aston
• Aston [juxta Mondrem]
• Audlem
• Austerson
• Baddiley
• Barthomley
• Basford
• Batherton
• Blakenhall
• Broomhall
• Buerton
• Cholmondeston
• Chorley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hatherton 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 Hatherton.

Listed Buildings Near Hatherton

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Hatherton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Hatherton Manor - 0.82 km

Grade II

• Bank House - 0.54 km
• Park House - 0.58 km
• Hatherton Lodge - 0.84 km
• The Broomlands - 0.95 km
• Hatherton House - 1.26 km

Hatherton Today

Today Hatherton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 354 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 Hatherton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Walgherton - 1.4 km NE
• Stapeley - 2.2 km NW
• Wybunbury - 2.2 km NE
• Austerson - 2.8 km NW
• Batherton - 3.6 km NW
• Blakenhall - 4.0 km E