Shavington cum Gresty () 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 ...

in the unitary authority of

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and the ceremonial county of

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, England. It lies to the south of

Crewe Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston ...

. It includes the large village of Shavington (at ), which lies 2½ miles south of Crewe, as well as the smaller settlements of Dodds Bank, Park Estate, Puseydale, Sugar Loaf and part of Goodall's Corner.Genuki: Shavington cum Gresty
(accessed 14 August 2007) Nearby villages include Basford,

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, Willaston,

Wistaston Wistaston is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, in North West England. It is approximately west of Crewe town centre and east of Nantwich town centre. It has a pop ...

and

Wybunbury Wybunbury is a village (at ) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village lies 3¼ miles to the south east of Nantwich and 3¾ miles to the south of Crewe. The parish al ...

. The total population of the civil parish is a little under 5,000.

History

Shavington appears in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

of 1086 as ''Santune''; it was then held by William Malbank, who held much of the land in the Nantwich hundred. In the 19th century, Shavington had four

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chapels, only one of which remains as a place of worship. The village name means "Sceafa's farmstead". Gresty means "badger path" or "wolf path". The village was the first victim of air raid damage in Cheshire in the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

when on 19 July 1940 six high-explosive bombs fell, breaking windows over a mile radius and damaging the road, but no casualties were caused. The logo of Shavington is the Woodnoth Coat of Arms which can be seen in the logo of the Parish Council and the Primary School.

Governance

Shavington cum Gresty is administered by Shavington Cum Gresty Parish Council. From 1974 the civil parish was served by

Crewe and Nantwich Crewe and Nantwich was, from 1974 to 2009, a Non-metropolitan district, local government district with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Cheshire, England. It had a population (2001 census) of 111,007. It contained 69 civ ...

Borough Council, which was succeeded on 1 April 2009 by the new

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 ...

. Shavington cum Gresty falls in the parliamentary constituency of

, which has been represented by

Kieran Mullan Kieran Mullan (born 6 June 1984) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Crewe and Nantwich at the 2019 general election. Early life and career Mullan was born in 1984. He grew up in so ...

of the Conservative Party since the 2019 UK General Election. The current Chair of the Parish Council is Benjamin Gibbs. Shavington-cum-Gresty Parish Council run a website for the community called Shavington Online. Shavington farmland

Geography and transport

The civil parish has a total area of .Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council: Parish Statistics (downloaded fro

5 April 2010) The terrain is relatively flat, with an average elevation of around 200 feet. Urban development has taken place at Shavington village, as well as the area immediately south of

and along the B5071 road, B5071. Much of the remainder of the civil parish is rural, with the major land use being agricultural. Swill Brook and other unnamed brooks run through the area, and there are several small meres and ponds.Cheshire County Council: Interactive Mapping: Shavington cum Gresty
(accessed 29 January 2009)Ordnance Survey Explorer Map 257: Crewe & Nantwich The Welsh Marches railway line, the A500 trunk road and Newcastle Road (the former route of the A500) all run east–west through the civil parish; the A500 has a junction at . The B5071 (Crewe Road) runs north–south from Crewe to

. A network of lanes connect the B5071 with adjacent villages; these include Gresty Lane, which runs westwards to

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and Willaston; and Weston Lane, which runs eastwards to Basford and

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Demography

In 2006, the total population of the civil parish was estimated as 4,830. The 2001 census recorded a population of 4,849 in 1,954 households. By the time of the 2011 Census the population had reduced to 4,519. Historical population figures were 189 (1801), 453 (1851), 1,149 (1901) and 1,850 (1951).

Landmarks

Shavington Hall is a small country house, built in 1877 for the

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in a

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; it is listed at

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. It bears the same name as the much larger seat of the Earls of Kilmorey near

Adderley Adderley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Shropshire, several kilometres north of Market Drayton. It is known as Eldredelei in the Domesday Book. The Irish statesman Robert le Poer was parish priest of Adderley in 1319. ...

, Shropshire, which was demolished in 1959. Shavington Lodge is a grade-II-listed, red-brick farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century. St John's Methodist Chapel is on Main Road in Shavington (); it was founded in 1876 as a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. Facilities within the civil parish include two

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s; ''The Elephant'' and ''The Vine'', hairdressers, and a

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Education

Shavington Primary School is on South Bank Avenue in Shavington (). It serves the majority of the civil parish of Shavington cum Gresty, as well as

and parts of Basford,

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and

. Parts of Shavington cum Gresty parish fall within the catchment areas of the Berkeley Primary School in

and Wybunbury Delves Church of England Primary School in Wybunbury. The parish falls within the catchment area of

Shavington Academy Shavington Academy (formerly Shavington High School) is a coeducational secondary school, located in Rope Lane, Shavington, Cheshire East, England. It is adjacent to the Shavington Leisure Centre. Previously a foundation school administered ...

in Rope.Cheshire County Council: Interactive Mapping: Shavington High School
(accessed 29 January 2009)

Notable people

* The French poet

Alfred de Vigny Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Biography Vigny was born in Loches (a town to which he never re ...

wrote his poem ''La Colère de Samson'' (Samson's Anger) while he was in Shavington, on 7 April 1839. * Eric Hall (born 1954) lived in Vine Tree Avenue until 1970. Now living in

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, France, he is the writer, producer and presenter of ''"Radio Anglais"'' – the French Government's

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public information service broadcasts on French local radio. * George Saul Mottershead OBE (1894–1978) ran a market garden in the village in the 1920s. In 1930 he and his family moved to Oakfield Grange at Upton by Chester where they founded

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References

External links

Shavington Primary SchoolSt John's Methodist Church ShavingtonShavington Village Festival Committee
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