Little Budworth

Little Budworth
The former vicarage, Little Budworth
Little Budworth Little Budworth shown within Cheshire
OS grid reference	SJ598653
Civil parish	Little Budworth
Unitary authority	Cheshire West and Chester
Ceremonial county	Cheshire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TARPORLEY
Postcode district	CW6
Dialling code	01829
Police	Cheshire
Fire	Cheshire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Eddisbury
List of places UK England Cheshire

Coordinates: 53°10′59″N 2°36′07″W / 53.183°N 2.602°W / 53.183; -2.602

Little Budworth is a civil parish and village between Winsford and Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 594.^[1] It is primarily known as the location of the Oulton Park motor racing circuit.

The village is about 3 miles from Winsford and Tarporley, 14 miles to Chester City Centre, 8 miles to Northwich and 17 miles to Warrington with nearby rail connection along the Mid-Cheshire Line set in rolling English countryside and forest.

History

As the Romans settled in mid-Cheshire they explored Delamere Forest for food and discovered underground salt in the area. The transport of salt led to roads being created in an otherwise wild area. A settlement was founded in this open space by a Viking, Bodeur. The open space was called a 'wirth'. In the Domesday Book the village appeared as 'Bodeaurde' and is described as a 'waste' with woodland 'one league long and half a league wide' and land enough for two ploughs.

Between 1153 and 1160 the manor was granted by the Third Earl of Chester to Robert le Grosvenor whose descendant held the village for Edward the First. Certain lands remained in the ownership of the Grosvenors. In the reign of Henry VIII it passed to the ancestors of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

In 1860 the village was known as Budworth-in-the-Frith. There was a school known as Lady Egerton's School.

St.Peter's Church

St Peter's Church, Little Budworth

Main article: St Peter's Church, Little Budworth

The first record of a Church in Little Budworth dates from 1190 when it was mentioned in conjunction with the Parish of Over, Winsford. In 1526 Hugh Starky of Oulton directed that he should be buried in Little Budworth and left money to the Church.

The 'free chapel of Budworth le Frith, within the Parish of Over', is mentioned in a charter of 1547 endowing the Bishopric of Chester, when is belonged to the nunnery of St Mary, Chester.

In 1798 the Church was rebuilt (except for the tower and north wall) by a bequest from Ralph Kirkham (a rich merchant of Chester and the son of a farmer in Little Budworth, educated at Lady Egerton's School). The church was restored by the Colonel of Egerton in 1919 and the window commemorating the Egerton twins killed in the war was placed in the south aisle. Two chests ordered by Queen Elizabeth - the outer for vestments and registers, the inner for the plate, were still there in 1935 but now the smaller has disappeared. There remains one of the two short-handled copper collecting boxes dated 1801, the silver-gilt Egerton chalice and the large painting thought to be of the school of Caravaggio. The smaller painting of 'The Good Shepherd' by William Dyce (given by the Stocks family) is on permanent loan to the Walker Art Gallery.

Public Houses

There are three pubs in the parish of Little Budworth. The Red Lion is in the heart of the village, opposite the church. The Shrewsbury Arms is on the road to Chester and the Cabbage Hall is on the A49. The Egerton Arms closed down in early 2010 but has now re-opened .

References

↑ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 30 May 2015.

"Little Budworth Then And Now", Donald & Deirdre Mackay 1993.

External links

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Discovercheshire (Little Budworth Country Park page)

Cheshire West and Chester

Principal settlements	Chester Ellesmere Port Frodsham Neston Northwich Winsford

Civil parishes (current)	Acton Bridge Agden Aldersey Aldford and Saighton Allostock Alvanley Anderton with Marbury Antrobus Ashton Hayes and Horton cum Peel Aston Bache Backford Barnton Barrow Barton Beeston Bostock Broxton Burwardsley Byley Capenhurst Carden Chester Castle Chidlow Chorlton Chowley Christleton Clotton Hoofield Clutton Coddington Comberbach Croughton Crowton Cuddington Cuddington Darnhall Davenham Delamere and Oakmere Dodleston Duckington Duddon Dunham-on-the-Hill and Hapsford Dutton Eaton and Eccleston Edgerley Elton Farndon Frodsham Golborne David Great Boughton Great Budworth Guilden Sutton Handley Hargrave and Huxley Hartford Harthill Helsby Huntington Ince Kelsall Kingsley Lach Dennis Lea-by-Backford Ledsham Little Budworth Little Leigh Little Stanney Littleton Lostock Gralam Malpas Manley Marston Mickle Trafford and District Mollington Moston Mouldsworth Moulton Neston Nether Peover No Man’s Heath and District Norley Northwich Poulton and Pulford Puddington Rowton Rudheath Rushton Saughall and Shotwick Park Shocklach Oviatt and District Shotwick Park Sproston Stanthorne and Wimboldsley Stoak Stretton Sutton Tarporley Tarvin Tattenhall and District Thornton-le-Moors Threapwood Tilston Tiverton and Tilstone Fearnall Tushingham-cum-Grindley, Macefen and Bradley Upton by Chester Utkinton Waverton Weaverham Wervin Whitegate and Marton Whitley Wigland Willington Wincham Winsford

Civil parishes (former)	Aldford Ashton Hayes Bickley Bradley Bridge Trafford Bruen Stapleford Buerton Burton Caldecott Caughall Chorlton-by-Backford Church Shocklach Churton by Aldford Churton by Farndon Churton Heath Claverton Cotton Abbotts Cotton Edmunds Crewe by Farndon Delamere Dunham-on-the-Hill Eaton Eccleston Edge Foulk Stapleford Golborne Bellow Grafton Hampton Hapsford Hatton Hockenhull Hoole Village Horton-by-Malpas Horton cum Peel Huxley Iddinshall Kings Marsh Larkton Lea Newbold Lower Kinnerton Macefen Marlston cum Lache Mickle Trafford Newton by Malpas Newton-by-Tattenhall Oakmere Oldcastle Overton Picton Poulton Prior's Heys Pulford Saighton Saughall Shocklach Oviatt Shotwick Shotwick Park Stanthorne Stockton Tattenhall Tilstone Fearnall Tiverton Tushingham-cum-Grindley Wimbolds Trafford Wimboldsley Woodbank Wychough

Unparished areas	Chester Ellesmere Port

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Unitary authorities	Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Halton Warrington

Major settlements	Alsager Birchwood Bollington Chester Congleton Crewe Culcheth Ellesmere Port Frodsham Handforth Knutsford Lymm Macclesfield Middlewich Nantwich Neston Northwich Poynton Runcorn Sandbach Warrington Widnes Wilmslow Winsford See also: List of civil parishes in Cheshire

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