Hatton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hatton, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Duddeston
- Bettisfield
- Bickerton
- Bickley
- Boughton
- Broxton
- Burwardestone
- Burwardsley and [Higher] Burwardsley
- Caldecott
- Calvintone
- Cheaveley
- Cholmondeley
- Chowley
- Christleton
- Clutton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hatton 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 Hatton.
Listed Buildings Near Hatton
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Hatton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Peter - 1.21 km
Grade II
- Causeway Over Moat at Hatton Hall - 0.53 km
- Hatton Hall - 0.55 km
- Meadow Farmhouse - 1.01 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Hatton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hatton:
- Hatton Hall moated site - 0.56 km
Hatton Today
Today Hatton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire West and Chester, and the settlement recorded a population of 198 at the 2011 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 Hatton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Golborne - 1.4 km SW
- Waverton - 2.2 km NW
- Saighton - 3.2 km W
- Tattenhall - 3.2 km S
- Stapleford - 3.2 km N
- Burton - 3.6 km NE
Heritage Around Hatton
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.
© A Holmes · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Jeff Buck · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Ian Warburton · 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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