Ashton

Built-Up Area: Ashton Hayes
Parish/Community: Ashton Hayes and Horton-cum-Peel
Unitary Authority: Cheshire West and Chester
Region: North West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Other Settlement

Latitude/Longitude: 53°13'12"N 2°44'34"W
Eastings/Northings: 350500, 369500
OS Grid: SJ505695
Mapcode Local: GBR 7J.108D
Mapcode Global: WH889.VB24

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Ashton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Ashton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Ashton.-- township, Tarvin par., W. Cheshire, 7 miles NE. of Chester, 1324 ac., pop. 388; P.O.

Ashton in the Domesday Book

A village in Rushton hundred, in the county of Cheshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Thorth of Wroxeter
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Richard of Vernon
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Richard of Vernon
- Taxable Value: 4 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 16 shillings in 1066; £1 in 1086
- Households: 5 villagers; 3 smallholders; 2 slaves; 2 riders
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 2 men's ploughs (5 plough lands)
- Woodland: ¹⁄₂ mixed measure

British Place Names

Ashton, Cheshire West and Chester

Ashton is a settlement in Ashton Hayes, Cheshire West and Chester

Ashton in historic gazetteers

Ashton in the Domesday Book