Audlem
Audlem is located in Cheshire
Audlem
Audlem
Location within Cheshire
Population1,991 (2011 Census)
OS grid referenceSJ660436
Civil parish
  • Audlem
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCREWE
Postcode districtCW3
Dialling code01270
PoliceCheshire
FireCheshire
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cheshire
52°59′21″N 2°30′28″W / 52.989187°N 2.507862°W / 52.989187; -2.507862

Audlem (/ʊərdləm/ ORD-ləm) is a village and civil parish located in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in North West England, approximately 7 mi (11 km) south of Nantwich. Close to the border with the neighbouring county of Shropshire, the village is eight miles (13 km) east of Whitchurch and seven miles (11 km) north of Market Drayton. According to the 2001 census, the population of the entire civil parish was 1,790,[1] increasing to 1,991 at the 2011 Census.[2]

History

Audlem was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Aldelime, and Edward I granted it a market charter in 1295.[3]

Geography

Audlem is on the Shropshire Union Canal, which has a flight of 15 locks, designed by Thomas Telford, to raise the canal 93 feet (28 m) from the Cheshire Plain to the Shropshire Plain. The River Weaver passes west of the village. Audlem railway station closed along with the local railway line in the 1960s.

Landmarks

Moss Hall is an Elizabethan timber-framed hall from 1616 0.5 miles (1 km) from Audlem village centre.

Education and facilities

Audlem has clubs for tennis, badminton, football, cricket, golf, pigeon racing (or pigeon-fancying), caravanning, bell ringing and bowls. Cyclists meet informally at the Old Priest-House Cafe. Audlem has a website, AudlemOnline.[4] Saint James' Primary School is the only school in the village.

Notable residents and associated people

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ "2001 Census: Audlem". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  3. ^ Scholes, R. (2000). pages 24–25.
  4. ^ "Home page". AudlemOnline. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  5. ^ Travitsky BS. 'Whitney, Isabella (fl. 1566–1573)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 21 April 2010)
  6. ^ Dictionary of National Biography, vol. LXI, pp. 142–143 (Oxford University Press, 1900)
  7. ^ Robinson JM. 'Highfields, Audlem, Cheshire'. Country Life, 31 January 1991
  8. ^ Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-marshal Viscount Combermere, by Mary, Viscountess Combermere and W.W. Knollys (1866), Volume 1, page 25.
  9. ^ Saskatchewan Archives Board, Members of the Legislative Assembly retrieved 17 March 2018
  10. ^ EFDSS Folk Music Journal, Alice E. Gillington, Dweller on the Roughs retrieved 17 March 2018
  11. ^ Profile at MUFC Info.com retrieved 17 March 2018
  12. ^ Crewe Alexandra F.C., 16 April 2014, Peter Ellson, A Tribute retrieved 17 March 2018
  13. ^ Website of UK Composer Peter McGarr
  14. ^ European Consortium for Political Research, University of Essex (2016). Directory of European Political Scientists (4th ed.). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. ISBN 9783111577555. Retrieved 17 May 2021.

Bibliography

  • Scholes, R. (2000). Towns and villages of Britain: Cheshire. Wilmslow, Cheshire: Sigma Press. ISBN 1-85058-637-3.

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