Marton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Marton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamestan in Cheshire.
Other Settlements in Hamestan
- Adlington
- Bosley
- Bramhall
- Bredbury
- Butley
- Capesthorne
- Cheadle
- Chelford
- Cranage
- Gawsworth
- Henbury
- Hollingworth
- Hungrewenitune
- Kermincham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Marton 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 Marton.
Listed Buildings Near Marton
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Marton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St James and St Paul - 0.64 km
Grade II
- Cherry Tree Cottage - 0.27 km
- Greenacre - 0.4 km
- Pump Cottage - 0.49 km
- Lower Gorsley Green Farmhouse - 0.51 km
- Oak Cottage - 0.59 km
- Oak Farm - 0.64 km
- Cross in Churchyard of St James and St Paul - 0.65 km
- Holly Bank Farm - 0.9 km
- Lower Marton Farmhouse - 1.24 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Marton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Marton:
Marton Today
Today Marton lies within the administrative area of Cheshire East, and the settlement recorded a population of 236 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 Marton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Siddington - 2.0 km N
- Somerford Booths - 3.2 km S
- Capesthorne - 4.0 km N
- Gawsworth - 4.1 km E
- Somerford - 4.2 km SW
- North Rode - 4.5 km SE
Heritage Around Marton
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.
© Geoff Royle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Geoff Royle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Turner · 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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