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Hatton, Hatton Hall

Major Settlement in the Parish of Waverton

Historical Forms

  • Etone 1086 DBf.267b
  • Hetone 1096–1101 Chest 1280
  • Hottone 1096–1101(1150),1150 Chesti3,56
  • Hettun 1185 Facs
  • Hatton 1249–65 Chest
  • Hacton 1300,1315 Plea
  • Hatton iuxta Goldburn 1289 Court
  • Hatton Huxlegh 1331 Plea
  • Hatton Waverton 1539 ChRR 1564
  • Hatton Hall 1724 NotCestr

Etymology

'Farm at a heath', from hǣð and tūn , with hall , cf. Hatton Heath infra . Hatton adjoins Golborne Bellow & Golborne David 95, 88supra , Huxley and Waverton 101, 103infra . The identification of the DB form rests on the argument in Tait 205 n.210. On formal grounds Ormerod proposed Eaton 148infra , and Beamont proposed Eaton near Tarporley, 3289, but the form Etone arises from loss of initial h - before a vowel, an Anglo-Norman feature (cf. Feilitzen 119), the true form appearing as Hetone 1096–1101 (1280) Chest. The form Hottone in fourteenth-century copies is almost certainly a misreading of Hettone , cf. Facs p. 12.