Bickley is a village in the parish of No Man's Heath and District in
Cheshire West and Chester
Cheshire West and Chester is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Cheshire, England. It was established on 1 April 2009 as part of the 2009 structural changes to l ...
and
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...
, England. According to the
2001 Census it had a population of 498,
that reduced to 481 at the 2011 census. The parish included the villages of Bickley Town and Bickley Moss. Bickley was a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in the parish of
Malpas. In 1866 Bickley became 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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
and on 1 April 2015 it was abolished to form "No Mans Heath and District".
The name is
Anglo-Saxon
The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...
in origin, and relates to bees.
The parish church is
St Wenefrede's, a grade-II-listed sandstone building designed by
John Douglas and Daniel Porter Fordham.
See also
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Listed buildings in Bickley, Cheshire
References
Villages in Cheshire
Former civil parishes in Cheshire
Cheshire West and Chester
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