Gawsworth
| Gawsworth | |
| Cheshire | |
|---|---|
 St James' Church, Gawsworth | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SJ888688 |
| Location: | 53°12’58"N, 2°9’58"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,705 (2011) |
| Post town: | Macclesfield |
| Postcode: | SK11 |
| Dialling code: | 01625 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cheshire East |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Macclesfield |
Gawsworth is a village and parish in Cheshire, on the A536 road between Macclesfield and Congleton. The ancient parish forms part of the Macclesfield Hundred. At the 2011 census, the population of the civil parish was recorded as 1,705.[1]
The country houses Gawsworth Old Hall, Gawsworth New Hall and Gawsworth Old Rectory are in the village. The authors of the Cheshire volume of the Buildings of England series state:[2]
There is nothing in Cheshire to compare with the loveliness of Gawsworth: three great houses and a distinguished church set around a descending string of pools, all within an enigmatic large-scale formal landscape.
A wood near the village known as Maggotty Wood is the burial place of the eighteenth-century dramatist Samuel Johnson. His ghost is reputed to haunt the wood.[3]
References
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123687&c=Gawsworth&d=16&e=62&g=6408354&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1457882600781&enc=1. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ↑ Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 366, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
- ↑ Coates, Neil (23 November 2011). "Gawsworth, Cheshire - North West - Countryfile.com". BBC Countryfile Magazine. http://www.countryfile.com/days-out/gawsworth-cheshire-0. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
Further reading
- Richards, Raymond (1957) The Manor of Gawsworth, Cheshire. (Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society; Vol. 5, pp. 1–356.) London: Ancient Monuments Society
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