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 are in the village. The authors of the Cheshire volume of the ''
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 "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
Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Bollin in the east of the county, on the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its east ...
constituency..
See also
*
Listed buildings in Gawsworth
*
St James' Church, Gawsworth
*
Warren, Cheshire
Warren is the traditional name for the largest settlement in the civil parish of Gawsworth in Cheshire, England. It is situated just to the north west of Gawsworth church and hall, and approximately south of the market town of Macclesfield
...
References
Further reading
*Richards, Raymond (1957) ''The Manor of Gawsworth, Cheshire''. (Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society; Vol. 5, pp. 1–356.) London: Ancient Monuments Society
External links
Villages in Cheshire
Civil parishes in Cheshire
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