Picton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Picton, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire. The survey assessed Picton at 1.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Picton supported a recorded population of 3 villagers, 2 smallholders, working 3 ploughs between them.
The survey records Picton’s value at 2 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.
Resources Recorded at Picton (1086)
- Meadow: 4 acres
- Woodland: 100 pigs
Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross
The Meaning of the Name
The name Picton 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 Picton.
Picton Today
Today Picton lies within the administrative area of Llanasa.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Picton
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.
© Natalia A McKenzie · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maggie Cox · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dot Potter · 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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