Shotwick

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Shotwick
Shotwick shown within Cheshire
OS grid reference	SJ337718
District	Chester
Shire county	Cheshire
Region	North West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHESTER
Postcode district	CH1
Dialling code	01244
Police	Cheshire
Fire	Cheshire
Ambulance	North West
European Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	City of Chester
List of places: UK • England • Cheshire

Coordinates: 53°14′21″N 2°59′38″W / 53.2391, -2.994

Shotwick is a village and civil parish on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England. The village is located within Chester District close to the border with Wales (Map)

[edit] History

Henry II left from Shotwick for Ireland and Edward I used the port to leave for Wales in 1278.^[1]

Shotwick Castle was built about 1093 by Hugh Lupus, 1st Earl of Chester,^[2] sited 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 17^th century and now only the foundations remain.

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.^[4]

[edit] References

^ Cheshire Antiquities: Shotwick. Craig Thornber. Retrieved on 10 May 2007.
^ History of Saughall. Saughall & Shotwick Parish Council. Retrieved on 10 May 2007.
^ Shotwick Castle. British Archaeology. Retrieved on 10 May 2007.
^ Cheshire Parishes: Shotwick. GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy. Retrieved on 6 August 2007.

[edit] See also

St Michael's Church, Shotwick

v • d • e Chester District, Cheshire

Principal Settlements	Chester • Malpas

Civil Parishes	Agden • Aldersey • Aldford • Ashton Hayes • Bache • Backford • Barrow • Barton • Beeston • Bickley • Bradley • Bridge Trafford • Broxton • Bruen Stapleford • Buerton • Burton • Burwardsley • Caldecott • Capenhurst • Carden • Caughall • Chester Castle • Chidlow • Chorlton • Chorlton-by-Backford • Chowley • Christleton • Church Shocklach • Churton by Aldford • Churton by Farndon • Churton Heath • Claverton • Clotton Hoofield • Clutton • Coddington • Cotton Abbotts • Cotton Edmunds • Crewe by Farndon • Croughton • Cuddington • Dodleston • Duckington • Duddon • Dunham-on-the-Hill • Eaton • Eccleston • Edge • Edgerley • Elton • Farndon • Foulk Stapleford • Golborne Bellow • Golborne David • Grafton • Great Boughton • Guilden Sutton • Hampton • Handley • Hapsford • Harthill • Hatton • Hockenhull • Hoole Village • Horton-by-Malpas • Horton-cum-Peel • Huntington • Huxley • Iddinshall • Kelsall • Kings Marsh • Larkton • Lea Newbold • Lea-by-Backford • Ledsham • Little Stanney • Littleton • Lower Kinnerton • Macefen • Malpas • Marlston-cum-Lache • Mickle Trafford • Mollington • Moston • Mouldsworth • Newton by Malpas • Newton-by-Tattenhall • Oldcastle • Overton • Picton • Poulton • Prior's Heys • Puddington • Pulford • Rowton • Saighton • Saughall • Shocklach Oviatt • Shotwick • Shotwick Park • Stockton • Stoke • Stretton • Tarvin • Tattenhall • Thornton-le-Moors • Threapwood • Tilston • Tilstone Fearnall • Tiverton • Tushingham cum Grindley • Upton-by-Chester • Waverton • Wervin • Wigland • Willington • Wimbolds Trafford • Woodbank • Wychough

Unparished Area	Chester

v • d • e Ceremonial county of Cheshire

Cheshire Portal

Unitary authorities	Halton • Warrington

Boroughs or districts	Chester • Congleton • Crewe and Nantwich • Ellesmere Port and Neston • Macclesfield • Vale Royal

Cities and towns	Alsager • Bollington • Birchwood • Chester • Congleton • Crewe • Ellesmere Port • Frodsham • Knutsford • Macclesfield • Middlewich • Nantwich • Neston • Northwich • Runcorn • Sandbach • Warrington • Widnes • Wilmslow • Winsford See also: List of civil parishes in Cheshire

Rivers	Bollin • Croco • Dane • Dean • Dee • Gowy • Goyt • Mersey • Weaver • Wheelock