Survey of English Place-Names

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.