Audlem

Audlem
St James' Church, Audlem
Audlem Audlem shown within Cheshire
Population	1,991 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SJ660436
Civil parish	Audlem
Unitary authority	Cheshire East
Ceremonial county	Cheshire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CREWE
Postcode district	CW3
Dialling code	01270
Police	Cheshire
Fire	Cheshire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Eddisbury
List of places UK England Cheshire

Coordinates: 52°59′21″N 2°30′28″W / 52.989187°N 2.507862°W / 52.989187; -2.507862

Audlem is a large village and civil parish located in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in the north west of England, approximately 11 km (6.8 mi) 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

It is situated on the Shropshire Union Canal which has a run of 15 locks, designed by Thomas Telford, to raise the canal from the Cheshire Plain to the 93 feet (28 m) higher 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 which is 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 and bowls. Cyclists meet informally at The Old Priest-House Cafe.

Saint James' primary school is the only school in the village.

Notable residents and associated people

Architect William Baker (1705–71) lived at Highfields from the 1740s.^[4]

British composer Peter McGarr (born 1953) has written several pieces inspired by Audlem ('Audlem Sonatas', 'Night-time' and 'Mourning Gamelan'), as homage to his mother who lived in the village when a child.^[5]

Notes and references

Notes

↑ "2001 Census: Audlem". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
↑ Scholes, R. (2000). pages 24–25.
↑ Robinson JM. 'Highfields, Audlem, Cheshire'. Country Life, 31 January 1991
↑ http://www.petermcgarr-composer.co.uk

Bibliography

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

External links

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Cheshire East

Principal settlements	Alsager Bollington Congleton Crewe Knutsford Macclesfield Middlewich Nantwich Sandbach Wilmslow

Civil parishes	Acton Adlington Agden Alderley Edge Alpraham Alsager Arclid Ashley Aston by Budworth Aston juxta Mondrum Audlem Austerson Baddiley Baddington Barthomley Basford Batherton Betchton Bexton Bickerton Blakenhall Bollington Bosley Bradwall Brereton Bridgemere Brindley Broomhall Buerton Bulkeley Bunbury Burland Calveley Checkley cum Wrinehill Chelford Cholmondeley Cholmondeston Chorley (near Nantwich) Chorley (near Alderley Edge) Chorlton Church Lawton Church Minshull Congleton Coole Pilate Cranage Crewe Green Disley Dodcott cum Wilkesley Doddington Eaton Edleston Egerton Faddiley Gawsworth Goostrey Great Warford Hankelow Haslington Hassall Hatherton Haughton Henbury Henhull High Legh Higher Hurdsfield Holmes Chapel Hough Hulme Walfield Hunsterson Hurleston Kettleshulme Knutsford Lea Leighton Little Bollington Little Warford Lower Withington Lyme Handley Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough Marbury cum Quoisley Marthall Marton Mere Middlewich Millington Minshull Vernon Mobberley Moreton cum Alcumlow Moston Mottram St Andrew Nantwich Nether Alderley Newbold Astbury Newhall Norbury North Rode Odd Rode Ollerton Over Alderley Peckforton Peover Inferior Peover Superior Pickmere Plumley Poole Pott Shrigley Poynton with Worth Prestbury Rainow Ridley Rope Rostherne Sandbach Shavington cum Gresty Siddington Smallwood Snelson Somerford Booths Somerford Sound Spurstow Stapeley Stoke Sutton Swettenham Tabley Inferior Tabley Superior Tatton Toft Twemlow Walgherton Wardle Warmingham Weston Wettenhall Willaston Wincle Wirswall Wistaston Woolstanwood Worleston Wrenbury cum Frith Wybunbury

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