Alvanley is a small rural 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 ...
near
Helsby
Helsby is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Overlooking the Mersey estuary, it is approximately north east of Chester and south we ...
, in the unitary authority of
Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of
Cheshire, England. The village is on the
B5393 road and near junction 14 of the
M56 motorway
The M56 motorway, also known as the North Cheshire motorway, serves the Cheshire and Greater Manchester areas of England. It runs east to west from junction 4 of the M60 at Gatley, south of Manchester, to Dunkirk, approximately north of Ches ...
. According to the
2011 census the civil parish had a population of 472.
History
The name means 'Aelfwald's wood/clearing', derived from an
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 ...
personal name and the word ''lēah'' (a forest, wood, glade or clearing).
The village is mentioned 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 ...
of 1086 as ''Elvedelie'', under the ownership of
Earl Hugh of Chester and consisting of only three households (one villager and two smallholders).
The population was recorded over time as 314 in 1801, 312 in 1851, 319 in 1901, 287 in 1951 and had reached 485 by the
2001 census.
Governance
Alvanley was a township in
Frodsham
Frodsham is a market town, civil parish, and electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Its population was 8,982 in 2001, increasing to 9,077 at the 2011 Census. It is s ...
parish of the
Eddisbury Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866. From 1875 Alvanley was part of the Runcorn Rural Sanitary District, then
Runcorn Rural District
Runcorn was a rural district in Cheshire, England from 1894 until 1974. It was named after but did not include Runcorn, a town on the River Mersey to the north-west of the district, which formed its own urban district.
The district was aboli ...
from 1894.
Local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974 transferred the civil parish into the
Borough of Vale Royal, which was superseded by the unitary authority of
Cheshire West & Chester on 1 April 2009.
[
Alvanley is within the ]Weaver Vale
Weaver Vale is a constituency in Cheshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Mike Amesbury, a member of the Labour Party.
Constituency profile
The constituency takes its name from the River Weaver, which f ...
parliamentary constituency.
Community
The village has a primary school, a public house (the White Lion) and a Grade II listed parish church dedicated to St John.
Sport
Alvanley Cricket Club, established in 1884, runs five senior teams and four junior teams ranging from under-9s to under-18s. The club came fifth in Division One of the Cheshire County League in 2000, but a fallow period saw them fall back down to the Meller Braggins League. In 2011 the club won the League unbeaten with a record 461 points and in doing so found their way back into the County league for 2012.
See also
* Listed buildings in Alvanley
References
External links
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Villages in Cheshire
Civil parishes in Cheshire
