The Domesday Book of 1086 reveals the existence of a settlement at Caverswall and also at what was then known as Westone.

Weston is a common place name, the `Dictionary of English Place Names` suggests that Weston is made up of two elements.The first of these is the Old English word `Tun` which signified a farm, enclosure or village. The second element is the Old English word `West` and when these are conjoined the place name is thought to signify a farmstead or village located to the west of another settlement or topographical feature. This explanation seems to fit our local situation because Westone was clearly located to the north west of the settlement at Caverswall and to the west of the River Blythe. The term `Old English` is used to describe the language that emerged during the period c.450 - c.1100.

The story now moves forward to the reign of Henry III : 1216 - 1272 when Weston was in the ownership of the Fitzalan family. During the period between the years 1216 and 1240, John the son of Fitzalan, (Lord of Oswestry and ancestor of the Earls of Arundel) decided to let the estate. His charter, which was undated, granted to a Walter Coyne, the Manor of Weston, subter Kiversmond, in the parish of Caverswall, Staffordshire, subject to the chief rent of half a mark of silver. It seems that at an early stage the Coyney family also aquired the adjacent Manor of Hulme which was then absorbed into the Manor of Weston.

This charter began the association between the Manor of Weston and the Coyney Family which was to last over 600 years until the 1920s. The Coyney family are thought to have originated from France and it is possible that they came to England with the Norman conquest. The first evidence of the inclusion of the family name Coyney with the place name appears in 1415. The so called `manorial affix` creates the present day name of `Weston Coyney`.

In 1440  Robert Coyney became the first designated Esquire and gained the right to a Coat of Arms. Over the years the family amended the Coat of Arms. The image on the right depicts the arms adopted by Walter William Hill Coyney in the late 1700s. The family motto may be translated as `Trust, but watch who you trust`.

The hamlet of Weston Coyney developed at the side of the ancient route leading from the south towards Leek and Buxton. Early maps of Staffordshire indicate that there was a house at the junction of the lane leading to Caverswall. There is additional evidence which indicates that a moated homestead was located near to this junction. This may have been occupied by the Coyney family. In later years the Coyney family built and occupied Weston Coyney Hall. The Hall stood a few metres to the north of the present day Weston Coyney Village Hall. The early maps also indicate the position of a nearby mansion house known as Park Hall. This house was owned by the Coyney family until they sold it in the early 1600s. Park Hall later became the home of the Parker family.

As with many of the feudal manors,  little documentary evidence has survived to the present day. It seems likely that the boundaries of the parish were based on the manors of Weston Coyney and Caverswall. An estate map of the 1740s depicts the boundaries of the Manor of Weston Coyney to be : Werrington in the north, Adderley Green in the west, the Roman Road (A50) forming the southern boundary to approximately a quarter of a mile to the east of the cross roads at Meir. From this point the boundary ran north easterly towards Cellarhead. In total an area of approximately 6 square miles.