Medieval Cheshire
The
history of Cheshire in the Middle Ages
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The Bakers of Highfields Story
The Story of the Dods and Bakers and of Highfields,
Fenton House and Hasfield Court. A journey through the history of Cheshire
and Staffordshire, an Anglo-Saxon nobleman who retained his lands after the
Conquest, pottery at Stoke on Trent, an encounter with Elgar, and the history
of an Elizabethan manor house at Audlem |
The family tree of the Bakers of Highfields |
The Family Tree of the Dods, predecessors to the
Bakers of Highfields |
The Bakers of
Fenton House and Hasfield Court
The Family Tree of the pottery Bakers of Stoke on Trent |
The Family Tree of the Bellyse Family |
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The genealogy of the family of James Hall, linked to
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Huyton
Huyton lies immediately to the north of
Cheshire, in the vicinity of modern Liverpool. Huyton and the region east of Liverpool during the
Anglo-Saxon period are known primarily through linguistic clues and place-names rather than rich archaeological finds. Settlements
east of Liverpool, such as Huyton, Allerton, and Walton, feature the Old
English suffix -tun, indicating agricultural homesteads or enclosed
farmsteads established by Anglo-Saxons. Settlements
like Roby carry Old Norse suffixes (-by), suggesting that later
Scandinavian settlers moved into and mixed with the existing Anglo-Saxon
population around the tenth century CE.
The region sat in a fluid,
marginal zone near the borders of major early medieval powers. The powerful
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia to the south and Northumbria to the north met
and contested territory in this general part of South Lancashire.
By the end of the Anglo-Saxon era
and the compilation of the Domesday Book in 1086, Huyton was formally
recorded as Hitune, confirming it as a recognised,
tax-assessed agrarian settlement on the eve of the Norman Conquest.
The Hundred
of Duddeston
The Lord of Edge
Bibliography
A History of the County of
Chester: Volume 5 Part 1, the City of Chester: General History and Topography,
ed. C P Lewis, A T Thacker (London, 2003), British History Online, index page.
Later
medieval Chester 1230-1550: City and crown, 1350-1550, in A History of the
County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 1, the City of Chester: General History and
Topography, ed. C P Lewis, A T Thacker (London, 2003), British History
Online, pages 55 to
58.
Townships: Huyton with Roby, in A History of the County of Lancaster, Volume 3, ed.
William Farrer, J Brownbill (London, 1907), British
History Online pages 168 to 176.