[2] The name Hatton means "heath farm/settlement" and likely derives from the Old English words hǣð (heather, a tract of uncultivated land) and tūn (a farmstead or settlement).

The entry lists only one household (a villager), making it amongst the smallest 20% of settlements recorded in the survey.

[1] On 1 April 2015 the parish was abolished to form "Hargrave and Huxley" and "Tattenhall and District", part also went to Golborne David.

The moat surrounds an island of approximately 60m x 55m upon which stood the hall, a quadrangular structure of timber.

[8] The hall was replaced by the present farm house c.1830 and a sandstone revetted causeway was constructed in the early 19th century.