Burton is a small village and 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 authority ...

, now in the parish of Duddon and Burton, in the unitary authority of

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and the ceremonial county of

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, England. In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 50.

History

The name Burton means "fortified 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 settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

words ''burh'' (a fortified place) and ''tūn'' (a farmstead or settlement). The village was mentioned in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

of 1086 as ''Burtone'', under the direct ownership of the

Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York. The diocese extends across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the C ...

. The entry records a population of thirteen households, consisting of seven villagers, four smallholders, one priest and one 'rider'. Burton is also referenced on

Christopher Saxton Christopher Saxton (c. 1540 – c. 1610) was an English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales. Life and family Saxton was probably born in Sowood, Ossett in the parish of Dewsbury, in the West Riding of Yorkshire i ...

's map of Cheshire from 1577.

Location

The village is about south east of

Tarvin Tarvin is a village in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It had a population of 2,693 people at the 2001 UK census, rising to 2,728 at the 2011 Census, and the ward covers about . ...

and west of

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. It lies on Burton Road, with the villages of

Duddon Duddon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Duddon and Burton, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is on the A51 road and is east of the city of Chest ...

to the north and Hoofield to the south. The

River Gowy The River Gowy is a river in Cheshire, England, a tributary of the River Mersey. It rises in western Cheshire in the hills near Peckforton Castle, very close to the source of the River Weaver. While the Weaver flows south initially, the Gowy f ...

passes approximately to the south west of Burton. The

Eddisbury Way The Eddisbury Way is a footpath running from Frodsham to Higher Burwardsley within the English county of Cheshire. The total length of the trail is .The Eddisbury Way - The Mid-Cheshire Footpath Society The path is waymarked with yellow arrows c ...

footpath passes through the village. The village is surrounded by undulating

pasture Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine ...

and contains three dairy farms: Burton Farm, Holly Farm and Home Farm. The village is dominated by Burton Hall.

Governance

Burton currently falls within the unitary authority of

and within the Westminster constituency of Eddisbury. Until 1 April 2015, Burton was a

. Although classified as a civil parish, it had neither a parish council nor a

parish meeting A parish meeting, in England, is a meeting to which all the electors in a civil parish are entitled to attend. In some cases, where a parish or group of parishes has fewer than 200 electors, the parish meeting can take on the role of a parish cou ...

, and, consequently, the duties that would normally be performed by these bodies were the responsibility of Cheshire West and Chester Council. From 1 April 2015, Burton parish was merged with Duddon parish to create a new, larger, Duddon parish. On 1 July 2017 the new Burton parish was renamed to Duddon and Burton.

Landmarks

Burton Hall is largely an early 17th-century brick and sandstone house, which was designated a Grade II*

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in 1952.

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