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Burtonwood is a village in the civil parish of Burtonwood and Westbrook, in the
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,
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, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of
Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
, the name Burtonwood is known worldwide as the location of the former RAF Station Burtonwood military camp. Burtonwood village itself is a few miles away from the site of the former station. The civil parish also includes Westbrook, which is a council ward and suburb of Warrington. According to the 2001 census, the population of the entire civil parish was 11,265. Retrieval Date: 8 September 2007.


History

Burtonwood was a
chapelry A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. Status It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel of ease (chapel) which was the communi ...
in the ancient parish of Warrington, in the
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of
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. It was later created a civil parish and was part of the
Warrington Warrington () is a town and unparished area in the borough of the same name in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey. It is east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester. The population in 2019 was estimat ...
Poor Law Union and then the
Warrington Rural District Warrington Rural District was, from 1894 to 1974, a local government district in the administrative county of Lancashire. It was formed a rural district under the Local Government Act 1894 from the Warrington rural sanitary district, and was ...
. By 1974 the village of Burtonwood became part of Warrington District and is now part of the Warrington
Unitary Authority A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governmen ...
. It is still a civil parish (now named Burtonwood and Westbrook) and thus has its own parish council. Burtonwood's population rose from 990 in 1861 to 2,408 in 1911 as the mining and brewing industries grew. The village of Burtonwood saw its greatest increase in housing and population post 1945 when the locally named 'miners estate' was built and vast numbers of people took employment in the collieries of Bold and Clockface both in the neighbouring Parish of Bold in St Helens. The population of the parish of Burtonwood continued to grow in 1951 partly due to the arrival of the
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(USAF) personnel and the but dropped from 8,238 to 4,899 in 1971, before rising to 11,265 today as a result of housing development on the old RAF station site. Nowadays, there is work being done on the station and two of the camps have been knocked down. This is because of the Omega Project.
RAF Burtonwood Royal Air Force Burtonwood (or RAF Burtonwood) is a former Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces base that was located in Burtonwood, Northwest of Warrington in Cheshire, England. The base was opened in 1940 in response to World Wa ...
was mainly used by the
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between 1942 and closure of the main airfield in 1958 and was the biggest US airbase in Europe.


Brewery

The village is known for its brewery, which brewed the Burtonwood ales. The brewery was founded in 1867, and built up a large estate of pubs. In 1964 Burtonwood Breweries became a public company, but retained its head office in the village. In 1998 the company formed a joint venture with Thomas Hardy Holdings, known as Thomas Hardy Burtonwood. Soon after the company stopped producing Burtonwood-brand beers and was recently contracted to produce Brakspear ales.


Facilities

Burtonwood had four
public houses A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...
. Three that have since been demolished are The Bridge House Inn, The Elm Tree Inn, and The Limerick Hotel. The Bridge House Inn and the Elm street Inn were both owned by the Marstons Group, and were demolished in 2014. The first was located in Phipps lane built in the early 1900s, the second was located on the corner of Phipps Lane and Chapel Lane, built around 1885s. The Limerick Hotel was located on what was Cow Lane, now Burtonwood Rd, built in 1911 and demolished in the early 1940s because the pub was too close, to the (fully operational) Burtonwood Air Base and runway. The Village currently has two public houses, the Chapel House and the Fiddle i'th Bag Inn, three social clubs and three churches, St. Michael's, St. Paul of the Cross and the Methodist church. The two primary schools are Burtonwood Community Primary School and St Paul of the Cross Primary School. The village does not have a secondary school or college and the nearest high school is
Great Sankey High School Great Sankey High School (GSHS) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is a member of the Omega Multi-Academy Trust (OMAT). The school was first built in the 1970s a ...
, which has a
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attached to it. Also Hope Academy in nearby Newton-le-Willows which also has a sixth form attached, and Priestley Sixth Form College in Warrington town centre is the nearest specialised sixth form college.Burtonwood Information.
''UpMyStreet website''. Retrieval Date: 8 September 2007.
Burtonwood village also has two doctors' surgeries, known as Burtonwood Surgery on Clay Lane, and Kinnock Park Surgery. There is also a large Co-operative store brand new since 2018 (Chapel Lane), as you walk into the village there is a fish and chip shop, a Village Barbers, a beauty salon and a Lloyd's chemist and a post office, located on Chapel Lane. There are two recreational parks. Burtonwood also has three
nature reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...
s. Wheatacre Woods (access via Clay Lane / Gorsey Lane), the Old Colliery Moss (access via Bold Lane / Back Lane) and an area known as the Picnik Area which is accessed primarily from the footpath adjacent to the bowling green. More information can be found on the Burtonwood Village history on the Burtonwood Village Facebook site.


Transport

The village is small, with only three bus routes through it, ( 329 to St Helens,
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24E to Newton Le-Willows which only runs through the village twice a day (subject to rural bus grant) and Ogden 141 (St Helens to Newton) run on behalf of
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). The nearest major bus interchanges are in Warrington (6 miles) and
Wigan Wigan ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, Lancashire, River Douglas. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. Bolton lies to the nor ...
(8.19 miles). The nearest railway station was Collins Green, but is now St. Helens Junction, two miles to the north-west of the village.
Liverpool John Lennon Airport Liverpool John Lennon Airport is an international airport in Liverpool, England, on the estuary of the River Mersey south-east of Liverpool city centre. Scheduled domestic, European, North African and Middle Eastern services are operated ...
is the nearest airport (10 miles to the west).


Statistics


Civil parish

The following statistics are for the civil parish of Burtonwood and Westbrook.


Population and gender

*Population: 11,265 *Population, Males: 5,554 *Population, Females: 5,711


Housing

*Total households: 4,264


Council ward

The following statistics are for the council ward of Burtonwood and Winwick.Office for National Statistics
for Burtonwood and Winwick ward, Warrington.


Population and ethnicity

*Population: 5,595 *Population ratio (Male:Female): 49.2%:50.8% *White origin: 98.48% *Mixed origin: 0.00% *Asian origin: 0.57% *Black origin: 0.01% *Other origin: 0.23%


Housing

*Total households: 2,400 *Owner occupied: 84.68% *Shared ownership: 0.26% *Council accommodation: 10.64% *Housing association accommodation: 0.18% *Other rented accommodation: 4.24%


See also

*
Listed buildings in Burtonwood and Westbrook Burtonwood and Westbrook is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington in Cheshire, England, northwest of the town of Warrington. It contains eight buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed bui ...


Notes and references


External links


http://www.burtonwood.net/
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