Picton

Other current and historical names

Pickton
Pichetone

Parish/Community: Mickle Trafford and District
Unitary Authority: Cheshire West and Chester
Region: North West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 53°14'11"N 2°50'52"W
Eastings/Northings: 343505, 371392
OS Grid: SJ435713
Mapcode Local: GBR 7C.04QH
Mapcode Global: WH882.7X36

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

Picton in historic gazetteers

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

Pickton.-- township, Plemonstall par., in co. and 3 miles NW. of Chester, 860 ac., pop. 112.

Picton 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 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1066; 5 shillings in 1070; £1 in 1086
- Households: 3 smallholders; 1 rider; 2 other households
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 1 men's plough (3 plough lands)
- Meadow: ¹⁄₂ acre

British Place Names

Picton, Cheshire West and Chester

Picton is a hamlet in Cheshire West and Chester

Picton in historic gazetteers

Picton in the Domesday Book