Huntington is a village and

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on the southern outskirts of

Chester Chester is a cathedral city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, Wales, River Dee, close to the England–Wales border. With a built-up area population of 92,760 in 2021, it is the most populous settlement in the borough of Cheshire West an ...

, in the unitary authority of

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 the ceremonial county of

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, England. In the 2001 census the population of the entire civil parish was 1,961, increasing to 2,115 by the 2011 census.

History

The name Huntington is derived from the

Old English Old English ( or , or ), 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 developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

words ''hunting/hunta'' (hunting/hunter) and ''dūn'' (a hill), therefore meaning 'hunter's hill' or possibly 'hunting hill'. It is known to have existed at the time of William the Conqueror's

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of 1086 as ''Hunditone''. The settlement consisted of eight households (two villagers, two smallholders and four slaves) on land held by St. Werburgh's Abbey. The population according to the census of 1801 was 111, becoming 129 in 1851, 121 in 1901 and 2,614 in 1951.

Community

The main road through the village, Chester Road (B5130), links Chester, which is less than a mile to the north, with the villages of Farndon and

Aldford Aldford is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Aldford and Saighton, in the Cheshire West and Chester district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. (). The village is approximately to the south of Chester, on th ...

to the south. The A55 (North Wales Expressway) passes through the south of the village, but is not directly accessible at Huntington. The village includes a few shops, a post office, Huntington Primary School, and St Luke's Church of England Church. Recreational open spaces include a

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, Jubilee Field and the of

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and

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s of Caldy Nature Park.

Saighton Camp Saighton Camp was a military installation located between Saighton and Huntington covering an area of approximately 33 hectares. History The camp was created between 1938 and 1939 for use as a military training camp during the Second World War. ...

is an old

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base that, despite the name, is within Huntington's boundaries. It has been redeveloped with the construction of 1200 new homes. Controversially the developers reneged on proposals to build a primary school on the site and succeeded in getting planning permission for additional housing instead. In response, to meet growing demand for school places

council built a new school on green belt land adjacent to the camp as a replacement for the existing school, which was too small for the increased population. The new school opened in November 2018. During the early years of the redevelopment of the camp the Chester

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test centre was located between the main part of Huntington and Saighton Camp.

Wales national football team The Wales national football team () represents Wales in international Association football, football. It is controlled by the Football Association of Wales (FAW), the governing body for football in Wales. They have been a member of FIFA since ...

manager

Gary Speed Gary Andrew Speed (8 September 1969 – 27 November 2011) was a Welsh professional footballer and manager. As manager of Wales, Speed is often credited as being the catalyst for the change in fortunes of the national team and as setting t ...

, born just over the

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border in

Mancot Mancot is a village in Flintshire, Wales, approximately 1 mile from Queensferry, and Hawarden and 6 miles from Chester. According to the 2001 Census, Mancot had a population of 3,462. In 1849 the population of the village was 282. Following ...

, lived at a house in the village at the time of his death in November 2011.

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{{authority control Villages in Cheshire Civil parishes in Cheshire Cheshire West and Chester

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