Hatton is a former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

, now in the parishes of Hargrave and Huxley, Golborne David and

Tattenhall and District Tattenhall is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tattenhall and District, south-east of Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. In the 2001 censu ...

, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The parish included most of the village of Hatton Heath, which is approximately south east of Chester and north-west of

Tattenhall Tattenhall is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tattenhall and District, south-east of Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. In the 2001 censu ...

. The civil parish was abolished in 2015 and became part of Hargrave and Huxley, Golborne David and Tattenhall and District. In the 2001 census it had a population of 120, The population in the 2011 census was 198, which included the parish of Golborne Bellow.

History

The name Hatton means "heath farm/settlement" and likely derives from the

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ...

words ''hǣð'' (heather, a tract of uncultivated land) and ''tūn'' (a farmstead or settlement). Hatton was mentioned in the

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of 1086 as ''Etune'', under the ownership of Ilbert of Roullours. The entry lists only one household (a villager), making it amongst the smallest 20% of settlements recorded in the survey. The settlement was a township within Waverton parish, Broxton Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866. The population was recorded at 152 in 1801, then 164 in 1851, 134 in 1901 and decreasing to 126 by 1951.

Landmarks

Hatton Hall moated site is an

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and dates to c.1200. The moat surrounds an island of approximately 60m x 55m upon which stood the hall, a quadrangular structure of timber. The hall was replaced by the present farm house c.1830 and a sandstone

revetted A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags, or wooden piles) applied to a bank or wall in order to absorb the energy of incoming water a ...

causeway was constructed in the early 19th century. These are both Grade II

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