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Cheswardine

Village and civil parish in Shropshire, England

Field	Value
civil_parish	Cheswardine
country	England
coordinates
official_name	Cheswardine, Shropshire
population	1,076
population_ref	(2011 census)
unitary_england	Shropshire
lieutenancy_england	Shropshire
region	West Midlands
constituency_westminster	The Wrekin
post_town	MARKET DRAYTON
postcode_district	TF9
postcode_area	TF
dial_code	01630
os_grid_reference	SJ720299
static_image_name	Cheswardine High Street - geograph.org.uk - 1925725.jpg
static_image_caption	Cheswardine, High Street

Cheswardine ( ) is a rural village and civil parish in north east Shropshire, England. The village lies close to the border with Staffordshire and is about 8 miles north of Newport and 5 miles south east of Market Drayton. At the 2001 census, the parish (which also includes the villages of Chipnall and Soudley as well as several small hamlets such as Goldstone and Ellerton), had a population of 991 people, increasing to 1,076 at the 2011 Census.

History and architecture

The name Cheswardine, recorded in 1086 as Ciseworde, in 1189 as Chesewordin and about 1650 as Cheswardyne, is probably derived from the Old English for "cheese-producing settlement".

Cheswardine was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, when the manor was held by Robert of Stafford, but is probably a much older settlement, with the church likely being built on an ancient fortified site.

Land 130 m north of the church was granted to Hamon le Strange in 1155 and a manor house surrounded by a moat built soon after. The manor was rebuilt as a small castle between 1250 and 1350. Ownership passed to the Earl of Arundel and Surrey in 1376. The moat, earthworks and some buried ruins remain, and Cheswardine Castle was scheduled as a historical monument in 1976.

The parish church, dedicated to St Swithun, overlooks Cheswardine from the hill at the top of the village. This is at least the third church on this site, and was rebuilt in 1887-1889 under the direction of the architect John Loughborough Pearson, who died before the work was completed. The work was completed with the assistance of funding by the then squire of the Cheswardine Estate, Charles Donaldson-Hudson, who provided half of the estimated cost of £8,500.

File:Church of St Swithun, Cheswardine - geograph.org.uk - 23144.jpg|Church of St. Swithun File:The Old School and School House, Cheswardine - geograph.org.uk - 628779.jpg|The Old School and School House File:The Red Lion, Cheswardine - geograph.org.uk - 628775.jpg|The Red Lion public house

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north and south with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 4,240.

Local amenities

Local amenities include a primary school, St Swithun's Church, as well as two village pubs, the Red Lion, and the Fox and Hounds, which serves food. There is also a Parish hall, bowling green and playing fields. However, the local post office was closed down in 2006 and turned into a residential building. A new community village shop (believed to be the smallest shop in Britain) opened in its place in 2010.

People and awards

Conservative MP and former minister Sir Peter Bottomley was baptised at St Swithun's Church, where his parents had married, his mother being a member of the Vardon family of Goldstone Hall. The ashes of his father (Sir James Bottomley), mother, brother and grandparents are buried in the churchyard.

Cheswardine was also home to the late MBE award winner, charity fund-raiser Winnie Goodwin.

The village has been runner-up in Britain in Bloom several times.

References

"2001 Census: Cheswardine". Office for National Statistics.
"Civil Parish population 2011".
Gelling and Foxall, ''The place-names of Shropshire, Volume 1'', EPNS, 1990, p.78
Raven, M. ''A Guide to Shropshire'', 2005, p.46
"Cheswardine Castle". English Heritage.
"Ward population 2011".
(12 July 2013). "Devoted couple buried side by side. Village link went back for 70 years.". Shropshire Star.

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