Hooton

Other current and historical names

Hooten
Hotone

Built-Up Area: Ellesmere Port
Parish/Community: Cheshire West and Chester, unparished area
Unitary Authority: Cheshire West and Chester
Region: North West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 53°17'59"N 2°57'26"W
Eastings/Northings: 336302, 378532
OS Grid: SJ363785
Mapcode Local: GBR 7ZS8.KS
Mapcode Global: WH87T.KB02

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

Hooton in historic gazetteers

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

Hooton, township and ry. sta., Eastham par., W. Cheshire, 7 miles SE. of Birkenhead, 1178 ac. (14 water), 631 tidal water and 1099 foreshore, pop. 161; contains the seat of Hooton Hall.

Hooton in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Toki of Picton
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Richard of Vernon
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Richard of Vernon
- Taxable Value: 1 ⁵⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 10/- in 1066; 5 shillings in 1070; 16 shillings in 1086
- Households: 1 villager; 4 smallholders; 4 riders
- Plough Teams: 2 men's ploughs (3 plough lands)

British Place Names

Hooton, Cheshire West and Chester

Hooton is a village in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester

Hooton in historic gazetteers

Hooton in the Domesday Book