Wettenhall is a village (at ) 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 ...

in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village lies 3½ miles to the south west of

Winsford Winsford is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the River Weaver south of Northwich and west of Middlewich. It grew around the salt mining industr ...

and 6 miles to the north west of Crewe. The parish also includes the settlements of Chapel Green and Woodside.Genuki: Wettenhall
(accessed 15 August 2007) Nearby villages include

Alpraham Alpraham is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, on the A51 road between Nantwich and Chester, seven miles north-west of Nantwich. The population is around 400. The Travellers Rest public house is on the Campaign for Real Ale's Nati ...

, Calveley, Cholmondeston,

Church Minshull Church Minshull is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is approximately north west of Crewe, just west of the River Weaver and Shropshire Union Cana ...

Little Budworth Little Budworth is a civil parish and village between Winsford and Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was ...

and

Tarporley Tarporley is a large village and civil parish in Cheshire, England. The civil parish also contains the village of Rhuddall Heath. Tarporley is bypassed by the A49 and A51 roads. At the 2011 census, the population was 2,614. History Tarporle ...

. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 135, increasing to 192 at the 2011 Census.

History

The village is listed 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 manus ...

as ''Watenhale'' and was held by Gilbert de Venables. In the Norman era, Wettenhall was within the Forests of Mara and Mondrem (now

Delamere Forest Delamere Forest is a large wood in the village of Delamere in Cheshire, England. The woodland, which is managed by Forestry England, covers an area of making it the largest area of woodland in the county. It contains a mixture of deciduous and ...

) and in the mid-14th century was overseen by an underforester. The village's former manor house, Wettenhall Hall, dated from 1635 and was demolished in around 1930. A drawing by John Douglas reveals that it was a brick building in the Artisan Mannerist style, with three shaped gables. The population has declined since the 19th century; the historical population figures are 228 (1801), 294 (1851), 214 (1901) and 154 (1951).

Governance

Wettenhall is administered by Cholmondeston and Wettenhall Parish Council jointly with the adjacent civil parish of Cholmondeston. From 1974 the civil parish was served by

Crewe and Nantwich Crewe and Nantwich was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district with borough status in Cheshire, England. It had a population (2001 census) of 111,007. It contained 69 civil parishes and one unparished area: the town of Crewe. It now fo ...

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

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 ...

of Cheshire East. Wettenhall falls in the parliamentary constituency of Eddisbury, which has been represented by

Edward Timpson Anthony Edward Timpson, (born 26 December 1973) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Eddisbury in Cheshire at the 2019 general election. He was previously MP for neighbouring Crew ...

since 2019, after being represented by Stephen O'Brien (1999–2015) and

Antoinette Sandbach Antoinette Geraldine Mackeson-Sandbach (born 15 February 1969), known as Antoinette Sandbach, is a former British politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Eddisbury in Cheshire at the 2015 general election. The following day, 8 ...

(2015–19).

Landmarks

St David's, the village church, dates from around 1870 and was designed by J. Redford and J.A. Davenport; it holds services every Sunday. The Little Man is the only remaining public house; the Boot and Slipper was demolished in 2016.

Geography

Wettenhall village is centred on the junction of Long Lane to

and Winsford Road between

Darnhall Darnhall is a civil parish and small village to the south west of Winsford in the Borough of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. It had a population of 232 at the 2011 Census. History The Norman Earls o ...

and Cholmondeston. Wettenhall Brook flows through the village.Search a
Cheshire East Interactive Mapping
18 January 2020 The parish includes Wettenhall Wood, part of the Wettenhall And Darnhall Woods Site of Special Scientific Interest, together with woodland in the adjacent Darnhall parish.Natural England: Nature on the Map: Wettenhall & Darnhall Woods SSSI
(accessed 16 April 2010)

Education

There are no educational facilities in the civil parish. Wettenhall falls within the catchment areas of Calveley Primary Academy and

Tarporley High School Tarporley High School and Sixth Form College is a Mixed-sex education, coeducational secondary school and sixth form with Academy (English school), academy status, located in the village of Tarporley, Cheshire, England. Admissions It has around ...

References

;Sources *C. Hartwell, M. Hyde, E. Hubbard, N. Pevsner. ''The Buildings of England: Cheshire'' (Yale University Press; 2011) () *P. de Figueiredo, J. Treuherz. ''Cheshire Country Houses'' (Phillimore; 1988) () *B. M. C. Husain. ''Cheshire under the Norman Earls: 1066–1237''. ''A History of Cheshire'' Vol. 4 (J. J. Bagley, ed.) (Cheshire Community Council; 1973)

External links

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