Shotwick

Shotwick

Houses in Shotwick village
Shotwick
 Shotwick shown within Cheshire
OS grid referenceSJ337718
Civil parishShotwick
Unitary authorityCheshire West and Chester
Ceremonial countyCheshire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town CHESTER
Postcode district CH1
Dialling code 01244
Police Cheshire
Fire Cheshire
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK ParliamentCity of Chester
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Coordinates: 53°14′20″N 2°59′38″W / 53.239°N 2.994°W / 53.239; -2.994

Shotwick is a small village and civil parish on the southern end of the Wirral Peninsula in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is close to the county of Flintshire on the England–Wales border. (Map). The village was located on the River Dee until it was canalised in 1736 after which the reclaimed land has since developed into the neighbouring Deeside Industrial Park.

History

Shotwick is recorded in the Domesday book[1] (1086), within the Cheshire Hundred of Willaston, with six households listed. Shotwick Castle was built about 1093 by Hugh Lupus, 1st Earl of Chester,[2] at what is now Shotwick Park and near the River Dee, before the area succumbed to the effects of silting.[3] The Norman castle lay in ruins by the 17th century and now only the foundations remain. Henry II left from Shotwick for Ireland and Edward I used the port to leave for Wales in 1278.[4]

The village, including part of the hamlet of Two Mills was within the Wirral Hundred, with a population of 95 in 1801, 100 in 1851, 82 in 1901 and 70 in 1951.[5] It currently has a population of 120.[6]

Professional footballer Tolani Omotola was born in the village of Shotwick.

See also

References

  1. http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ3371/shotwick/
  2. History of Saughall, Saughall & Shotwick Parish Council, retrieved 10 May 2007
  3. Shotwick Castle, British Archaeology, retrieved 10 May 2007
  4. Thornber, Craig, Cheshire Antiquities: Shotwick, retrieved 10 May 2007
  5. Cheshire Towns & Parishes: Shotwick, GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy, retrieved 6 August 2007
  6. Chester Diocesan News, December 2014

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