Huntington, Cheshire
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Huntington is a village and
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 authorit ...
on the southern outskirts of Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. In the 2001 census the population of the entire civil parish was 1,961, increasing to 2,115 by the 2011 census.


History

The name Huntington is derived from the
Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ...
words ''hunting/hunta'' (hunting/hunter) and ''dūn'' (a hill), therefore meaning 'hunter's hill' or possibly 'hunting hill'. It is known to have existed at the time of William the Conqueror's
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of 1086 as ''Hunditone''. The settlement consisted of eight households (two villagers, two smallholders and four slaves) on land held by St. Werburgh's Abbey. The population according to the census of the 1801 was 111, becoming 129 in 1851, 121 in 1901 and 2,614 in 1951.


Community

The main road through the village, Chester Road (B5130), links Chester, which is less than a mile to the north, with the villages of Farndon and Aldford to the south. The A55 (North Wales Expressway) passes through the south of the village, but is not directly accessible at Huntington. The village includes a few shops, a post office, Huntington Primary School and St Luke's Church of England Church. Recreational open spaces include a
village green A village green is a common open area within a village or other settlement. Historically, a village green was common grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other stock, often at the edge of a rural settlement, used for gathering cattle t ...
, Jubilee Field and the of
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,
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and
meadow A meadow ( ) is an open habitat, or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non- woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as these areas maintain an open character. Meadows may be naturally occurring or arti ...
s of Caldy Nature Park.
Saighton Camp Saighton Camp was a military installation located between Saighton and Huntington covering an area of approximately 33 hectares. History The camp was created between 1938 and 1939 for use as a military training camp during the Second World War. ...
is an old
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base that, despite the name, is within Huntington's boundaries. It has been redeveloped with the construction of 1200 new homes. Controversially the developers reneged on proposals to build a primary school on the site and succeeded in getting planning permission for additional housing instead. In response, to meet growing demand for school places Cheshire West and Chester council built a new school on green belt land adjacent to the camp as a replacement for the existing school, which was too small for the increased population. The new school opened in November 2018. During the early years of the redevelopment of the camp the Chester
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test centre was located between the main part of Huntington and Saighton Camp.
Wales national football team ) , Association = Football Association of Wales (FAW) , Confederation = UEFA (Europe) , Coach = Rob Page , Captain = Gareth Bale , Most caps = Gareth Bale (111) , Top scorer = Gareth ...
manager
Gary Speed Gary Andrew Speed (8 September 1969 – 27 November 2011) was a Welsh professional footballer and manager. As manager of Wales, Speed is often credited as being the catalyst for the change in fortunes of the national team and as setting t ...
, born just over the Welsh border in Mancot, lived at a house in the village at the time of his death in November 2011.


See also

* Listed buildings in Huntington, Cheshire


References


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{{authority control Villages in Cheshire Civil parishes in Cheshire Cheshire West and Chester