Gawsworth is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

and village in the unitary authority of

Cheshire East Cheshire East is a unitary authority area with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The local authority is Cheshire East Council. Towns within the area include Crewe, Macclesfield, Co ...

and the ceremonial county of

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,705. It is one of the eight ancient parishes of

Macclesfield Hundred The hundred of Macclesfield was an ancient division of the historic county of Cheshire, in northern England. It was known to have been in existence at least as early as 1242, and it was formed to a great extent from the earlier Domesday hundred ...

. Twenty acres of the civil parish were transferred to Macclesfield civil parish in 1936 The country houses

Gawsworth Old Hall Gawsworth Old Hall is a Grade I listed building, listed English country house, country house in the village of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England. It is a timber-framed house in the Cheshire black-and-white style. The present house was built b ...

Gawsworth New Hall Gawsworth New Hall is a country house in the village of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The house was begun by Lord Mohun in 1707 but abando ...

and

Gawsworth Old Rectory Gawsworth Old Rectory is a medieval house in the village of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England. It is known for the rare survival of its " open hall" and the notable 1873 restoration by Richard Norman Shaw, and is recorded in the National Heritage List ...

are in the village. The authors of the Cheshire volume of the ''Pevsner Architectural Guides, Buildings of England'' series state:

There is nothing in Cheshire to compare with the loveliness of Gawsworth: three great houses and a distinguished church set around a descending string of pools, all within an enigmatic large-scale formal landscape.

A wood near the village known as Maggotty Wood is the burial place of the eighteenth-century dramatist Samuel Johnson (dramatist), Samuel "Maggotty" Johnson. His ghost is reputed to haunt the wood.

Governance

Gawsworth Parish Council consists of 9 elected Councillors in two wards, Gawsworth Village and Gawsworth Moss. It is within the Gawsworth Ward of Cheshire East Council. In the UK Parliament it is represented by David Rutley MP for the Macclesfield constituency..

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