Monument record 1727/1 - Domestic oratory, Hampton

Site of a domestic oratory at Hampton. 'Hugh de Malpas, Rector of Barthomley had licence for divine service in the oratory within his mansion at Hampton 1364-5' (1). Willington was probably the 'Winfletone' of Domesday, allotted to Walter de Vernon. It had land for 2 ploughs. This township with other lands of Walter de Vernon was afterwards resumed by the earls of Chester, under whom it was held in moieties by the families of Stapleford and Despenser. The manor continued vested in the abbot and convent of Whalley to the dissolution. Shortly afterwards it was vested in the Leghs of Booths and then the Dones (1). Suggested as a deserted medieval village, but no evidence for this theory (2).

<1> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2/597 (Y) (Book). SCH1389.