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Witton in the Domesday Book (1086)

YEAR: 1086 HUNDRED: Middlewich COUNTY: Cheshire

Witton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire. The survey assessed Witton at 2 carucates of taxable land.

The survey records Witton’s value at 1 shilling 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 Witton (1086)

  • Mills: 1 mill (valued at 2d)

Other Settlements in Middlewich

Location

53.2572°N, -2.5022°W · Middlewich hundred, Cheshire

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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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