Monument record 1658/1 - Manor of Butley

<1> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.I p.193-194 (Book). SCH3228.

"Butta's clearing" from the Old English personal name Butta and leah. The two entries in the Domesday survey are considered by (3) to be moieties of one manor. (4) suggests that one of the entries represents Newton.

<2a> Morgan P (ed), 1978, Domesday Book - Cheshire, p.264d 2, 30 (Book). SCH1061.

In MACCLESFIELD Hundred: Robert holds BUTLEY from the Earl. Hunding held it; he was a free man. 1 hide apying tax. Land for 5 ploughs. Waste, apart from 12 sown acres; value before 1066, 30s; now 2s. Meadow, 2 1/2 acres; woodland 3 leagues long and 1 wide; 1 enclosure.

<2b> Morgan P (ed), 1978, Domesday Book - Cheshire, p.267d 26, 8 (Book). SCH1061.

In MACCLESFIELD Hundred: Wulfric holds BUTLEY. He held it himself as a free man. 1 hide paying tax. Land for 5 ploughs. It is waste, except for 7 acres sown. Woodland 3 leagues long and 1 wide; an enclosure; meadow, 2 1/2 acres. Value before 1066, 30s; now 2s.

<3> Tait J, 1916, The Domesday Survey of Cheshire, p.213 (Book). SCH8085.

<4> Earwaker, J P, 1877-1880, East Cheshire Past & Present, Vol. II p.254 (Book). SCH1080.

The two (Domesday) accounts are very much alike, and it is not improbable that they may relate to the two adjacent townships of Butley and Newton, that of Butley being commonly called Butley cum Newton. It does not, however, clearly appear which description applies to Butley and which to Newton. The manor of Butley was held in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by the family of the Pigots. The Butley estates were divided into three during the sixteenth century and subsequently sold. The greater part was sold to Thomas Legh of Adlington who died in 1602 "seised of the manor of Butley".