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Warburton is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. [1] Historically in Cheshire, it lies on the south bank of the River Mersey. The village remains predominantly rural. Altrincham is the nearest town. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 286. [2]
Recent governments have encouraged the formation of town and parish councils in unparished areas, and the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 gave local residents the right to demand the creation of a new civil parish. [10] A parish council can become a town council unilaterally, simply by resolution; [9] and a civil parish can also gain city ...
Warburton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It contains 22 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Werburgh, an Anglo-Saxon saint who has given her name to Warburgtune, as Warburton was called in the Domesday survey (1086), was the daughter of Wulfhere, the first Christian king of Mercia. She died around AD 700 as Abbess of Ely, with the care of several nunneries. Her relics were moved to the abbey of St Peter and St Paul in Chester, which ...
Church House was built as parish rooms and a caretaker's house in 1889. [1] Hubbard states that it was built for Rowland Egerton-Warburton and that its design is attributed to the Chester architect John Douglas. [2] However the authors of the Buildings of England series refer to the "Douglas motifs" and give a firm attribution to him. [3]
It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth. [19] Clifton-Taylor includes it in his list of best English parish churches. [20] Richards describes it as "one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture remaining in Cheshire". [21]
A map of Cheshire, showing the Boroughs : (1) Cheshire West and Chester; (2) Cheshire East; (3) Warrington; and (4) Halton.. A civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England.
Recent governments have encouraged the formation of town and parish councils in unparished areas, and the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 gave local residents the right to demand the creation of a new civil parish. [10] A parish council can become a town council unilaterally, simply by resolution; [9] and a civil parish can also gain city ...