[1] The lost village of Coton has an entry as an independent manor in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Not much else is known after that survey about Coton until the 17th century when it was recorded that there were eight households paying the 1673 Hearth Tax.
Coton lies entirely along today’s single street that runs through the hamlet.
[3] On the western side of the street today there are no dwellings but in 1839 records show that there were six dwellings and a farm to the north of these; all have now been destroyed.
Also the land between the main street and the valley below shows signs of paddocks, platforms and closes in the form of earthworks in the recent past.