More information : (SJ 757813) Tatton village was a loosely connected community of cottages, crofts and fields on the E side of the Old Hall, and strung along the now vanished road from Rostherne (SJ 743835) to Knutsford (SJ 7578). It is mentioned in the Domesday Survey and there are references to a fulling mill in the 13th and 14th centuries; a map of 1733 shows the village in decline (see illustration).
House platforms and other features can be traced, and a wide deep
gully along the E side of the road which seems to be an old
watercourse, is the most prominent feature. Beyond the road, the
village fields, enclosed by banks and ditches, were destroyed when
Tatton Park was created. (1)
Tatton deserted medieval village declined in the late C13th - early C14th but was actually partially in existence in 1733. It was finally destroyed in the late C18th when the area was emparked. Occupation of this site probably dates back to the Neolithic period and certainly to the IA/RB period. Late Saxon settlement was followed by medieval occupation. (2-7)
Excavations 1978-198? proved the pre-medieval sequence to range from
transient Mesolithic camping, through brief Neolithic cultivation,
later prehistoric farming, associated with fields, lynchets, round and rectilinear houses and a palisaded enclosure to Romano-British storage pits and cereal cultivation. The medieval settlement was also excavated, uncovering rectangular buildings, drains, pits and
hearths, dated to the period 10th-14th century. (8)
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