Petton is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It was mentioned in Domesday

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

 as "Peetone", a name probably derived from Old English paec-tun, "settlement by the hill".

Petton is near to the village and parish of Cockshutt

Cockshutt, Shropshire

Cockshutt is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.-Cockshutt-cum-Petton:Cockshutt-cum-Petton is the name of the combined parish council of the two historic, single-village parishes of Cockshutt and Petton. These two villages, as well as the hamlet of English Frankton, make up the main...

. The two parishes have in recent years combined their parish councils under the name Cockshutt-cum-Petton.