Shotwick is a small village and former
civil parish, now in the parish of
Puddington, on the southern end of the
Wirral Peninsula in the unitary authority of
Cheshire West and Chester
Cheshire West and Chester is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It was established on 1 April 2009 as part of the 2009 str ...
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 village is close to the county of
Flintshire on the
England–Wales border. The village was located on the River Dee until it was canalised in 1736 after which the reclaimed land has since developed into the neighbouring Deeside Industrial Park. The civil parish was abolished in 2015 and merged into Puddington.
History
Shotwick is recorded in the Domesday book (1086), within the Cheshire Hundred of Willaston, with six households listed.
Shotwick Castle was built about 1093 by
Hugh Lupus, 1st
Earl of Chester, at what is now
Shotwick Park and near the
River Dee, before the area succumbed to the effects of
silting. The
Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
castle lay in ruins by the 17th century and now only the foundations remain.
Henry II left from Shotwick for Ireland and
Edward I
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he ruled the duchies of Aquitaine and Gascony as a vassal o ...
used the port to leave for Wales in 1278.
The village, including part of the hamlet of Two Mills was within the
Wirral Hundred, with a population of 95 in 1801, 100 in 1851, 82 in 1901 and 70 in 1951.
It currently has a population of 120.
[''Chester Diocesan News'', December 2014]
Gallery
File:St. Michael's church, Shotwick - geograph.org.uk - 649501.jpg, St. Michael's church, Shotwick
File:Bench, Shotwick 1.JPG, Millennium bench
File:Shotwick 4.JPG, Cottage in Shotwick
See also
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Listed buildings in Shotwick
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St Michael's Church, Shotwick
St Michael's Church is the Church of England parish church of Shotwick, Cheshire, England. It a Grade I listed building. It has a Norman doorway but most of the church is Gothic. Its furniture includes some ancient items. In the churchyard are ...
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Shotwick Hall
References
External links
Villages in Cheshire
Former civil parishes in Cheshire
Cheshire West and Chester
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