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PLACENAME: Optone (first mentioned 1086 in the Domesday Book). Farm on a hill. From upp tün. Ouptone c.1328.
The first church in the township of Upton stood at Overchurch in a curvelinear churchyard. This building was Anglo Saxon. It was rebuilt in the Norman period, although some of the Saxon stone was reused. The church decayed over many years, the steeple being damaged in a storm in 1709 (Scheduled Ancient Monument). 
Upton Hall (Elizabethan), built by Thomas Webster, is recorded as having been a low building with bay windows and gables. There is a suggestion that there may have been an earlier building on the site. The well for this hall has also been identified in excavation work. Image courtesy of Liverpool Record Office. A Viking hogback stone was discovered in the 1887 demolition of Upton's third church. The runic inscription reads 'the people erected a memorial... pray for Aethelmund'. Back to the top | Back up to West Wirral | Back up to Merseyside |
