200px, Map of civil parish of Wincham in the former borough of Vale Royal
Wincham 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 authorit ...
and village in the unitary authority of
Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of
Cheshire, England.
It is about three miles north of
Northwich in the
Cheshire Plain
The Cheshire Plain is a relatively flat expanse of lowland within the county of Cheshire in North West England but extending south into Shropshire. It extends from the Mersey Valley in the north to the Shropshire Hills in the south, bounded b ...
. The
Trent and Mersey Canal runs through the parish.
The whole area around Wincham was the site of
salt mining for many years, with the
Lion Salt Works
The Lion Salt Works is the last remaining open pan salt works in Marston, near Northwich, Cheshire, England. It closed as a work in 1986 and is now preserved as a museum.
History
John Thompson Junior and his son Henry Ingram Thompson, a membe ...
at nearby
Marston. This industry finally ceased in the village in 2005 when
New Cheshire Salt Works
The New Cheshire Salt Works Ltd was a salt manufacturer formerly located in Wincham, north east of Northwich in Cheshire, UK. Run by the Stubbs family, it operated between around 1923 and 2006. It produced white or brine salt from naturally oc ...
was bought by
British Salt
British Salt Limited is a United Kingdom-based chemical company that produces pure white salt. The company is owned by Tata Chemicals Europe after a buy out from private equity company LDC in April 2010. It is based in Middlewich, Cheshire, emplo ...
and closed down the following year. In 2015 the Lion Salt Works re-opened to provide a museum on the history of salt production in Cheshire. A butterfly garden in the grounds is managed by Butterfly Conservation.
The population of the parish was:
* 1801: 367
* 1851: 684
* 1901: 1054
* 1951: 890
* 2001: 2289
* 2015: 3045
The village is home to Wincham Community Primary School.
It is home to
Witton Albion Football Club who moved to Wincham Park in 1989.
Home to the ‘Renowned Wrong-uns’ and well known mid 90s Homosexual Street Gang
- The WTB - Winchem Tory Boys
Core members included
- Franco Detori Hartley
- Sammy ‘Becks’ ‘little porky’ Hartley
- Fergal ‘Chinhog’ Hardly
- Danny ‘S’riiight’ Marc Anion Berry
(The Most Tory name ever given to ANYONE to attend Rudheath High School)
- Dave ‘you got 50p you owe me’ Hewitt
- Knobby ‘the bosseyed’ Knob
See also
*
Listed buildings in Wincham
References
External links
Wincham Parish Plan
Villages in Cheshire
Civil parishes in Cheshire
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