A place in Cheshire with a history you can trace through the records: its entry in the 1086 Domesday Book, the archaeological finds and scheduled monuments around it, and the nearest Roman sites and battlefields. Everything below is drawn from the historical record.
In 1086, Newton le Willows was held by Roger of Poitou.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Newton le Willows in 1086, they recorded 2 manors held by Roger of Poitou. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by King Edward, (Winwick), St Oswald, church of and drengs, fifteen.
The settlement was assessed at 30 hides for tax. The record notes 9 plough teams at work. The recorded population was 16 heads of household: 12 villagers and 4 smallholders. These are heads of household, so the settlement's true population was several times larger. Its recorded resources included woodland (10 leagues * 6 leagues and 2 furlongs mixed measures). The manors were valued at 5.5 pounds in 1086, down from 10.5 pounds in 1066.
The Domesday Book was the great survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror in 1085 and completed in 1086, the oldest surviving public record in the country. How the survey worked →
Newton le Willows was one of the settlements recorded in Cheshire in the 1086 survey. Cheshire in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Newton le Willows's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Nationally registered historic battlefields within 25 miles of Newton le Willows.
The bedrock beneath Newton le Willows is Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated) (Triassic).
Aubrey's full report for this location includes every Domesday manor, the complete record of medieval lordship, archaeological context, and the story of how this settlement evolved from 1086 to the present day.