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Threapwood

Village in Cheshire, England

Summary

Village in Cheshire, England

Field	Value
coordinates
official_name	Threapwood
population	153
population_ref	(2011)
civil_parish	Threapwood
unitary_england	Cheshire West and Chester
lieutenancy_england	Cheshire
region	North West England
country	England
constituency_westminster	Chester South and Eddisbury
post_town	MALPAS
postcode_district	SY14
postcode_area	SY
dial_code	01948
os_grid_reference	SJ440451
static_image	Threapwood Windmill.jpg
static_image_caption	Derelict brick tower mill at Threapwood

Threapwood is a small village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is close to the villages of Shocklach, Worthenbury and Malpas.

Toponymy and history

Threapwood developed on an area of common land, historically a tract of woodland lying between Cheshire and Flintshire, which was traditionally reputed to have fallen outside of county, parish and township boundaries: it was therefore outside the jurisdiction of any Justice of the Peace and paid no land tax or parish rates. This status was reflected in its name, with threap being a common Old English place name element referring to disputed boundary areas.

This vague administrative status was to lead to Threapwood gaining a reputation as a home to "abandoned characters of every description, and especially of women of loose or blemished morals". It was also a refuge for military deserters. Various attempts were made to bring Threapwood within the normal administrative structure; by the Militia Acts of 1792 it was decreed to be in Worthenbury – though for the purposes of the militia only – and the Mutiny Act 1797 placed it in the parish of Malpas.

Until Victorian times the village continued to be regarded as partly in Cheshire, and partly in Flintshire. But in 1896, under the "County of Chester (Threapwood) Order", the county boundary (and therefore the boundary between England and Wales), which passed through the village, was adjusted slightly in favour of Cheshire.

Buildings

Churches

St John (C of E). Founded 1817 as a chapel to Malpas (formerly extra-parochial), becoming the parish church for Threapwood in 1968.
United Reformed Church (Independent/Congregational). Built 1850.

Other

War Memorial
A derelict brick tower windmill to the southeast of the village still contains much of the internal mechanism, though in a ruinous state of repair.

Sources

References

Winchester, W. ''Discovering Parish Boundaries'', Shire, 2000, p.42
[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/FLN/Threapwood/ GENUKI : Flintshire, Threapwood, St. John]
See Pickering, D. ''Statutes at Large from the 26th to the 30th year of King George III'', Cambridge: Charles Bathurst, 1766, p.329
Cathrall, W. ''The History of North Wales: Comprising a Topographical Description of the Several Counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, Denbigh, Flint, Merioneth, and Montgomery'', v2, 1828, p.233
Pevsner, Nikolaus and Hubbard, Edward (1971). ''The Buildings of England: Cheshire''. Penguin Books. {{ISBN. 0-300-09588-0

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