Shotwick Park

Shotwick Park

Shotwick Castle earthworks
Shotwick Park
Shotwick Park shown within Cheshire
OS grid reference SJ354711
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CHESTER
Postcode district CH1
Dialling code 01244
Police Cheshire
Fire Cheshire
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK Parliament

Shotwick Park is a former civil parish, now in the parishes of Saughall and Shotwick Park and Puddington, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Located near the village of Shotwick, it is four miles north west of Chester and close to the Welsh border. The civil parish was abolished in 2015 to form Saughall and Shotwick Park, part also went to Puddington.[1]

The area is the location of the remnants of Shotwick Castle (grid reference SJ349704), built about 1093 by Hugh Lupus, 1st Earl of Chester.[2]

By the 19th century, it was an extra-parochial place within the Wirral Hundred. The population was 25 in 1801, 13 in 1851, 8 in 1901 and 78 in 1951.[3]

Shotwick Park is a rural residential area with communal amenities provided in the nearby village of Saughall. A small industrial estate development also exists at Shotwick Park.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "SHOTWICK PARK". GENUKI. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  2. ↑ History of Saughall, Saughall & Shotwick Parish Council, archived from the original on 28 September 2007, retrieved 10 May 2007
  3. ↑ Cheshire Towns & Parishes: Shotwick Park, GENUKI UK & Ireland Genelaogy, retrieved 18 September 2007

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