Warburton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bucklow in Cheshire. The survey assessed Warburton at 0.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Warburton supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, 1 smallholder, 1 slave, working 3 ploughs between them.

The survey records Warburton’s value at 15d 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 Warburton (1086)

Pigs: 10
Sheep: 40
Woodland: 8 acres

Other Settlements in Bucklow

The Meaning of the Name

The name Warburton 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 Warburton.

Listed Buildings Near Warburton

Historic England records 22 listed buildings within about a mile of Warburton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I