Eccleston (Cheshire)
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 9 ′ N , 2 ° 53 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 184 | ||
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| Post town | CHESTER | ||
| ZIP code section | CH4 | ||
| prefix | 01244 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North West England | ||
| Ceremonial county | Cheshire | ||
| Unitary authority | Cheshire West and Chester | ||
| Civil Parish | Eccleston | ||
| British Parliament | City of Chester | ||
Eccleston is a Civil Parish and village in the Unitary Authority of Cheshire West and Chester , in the traditional county of Cheshire . It is close to the city of Chester . At the 2001 UK census , the parish had 184 inhabitants. The village is within the manor house of the Duke of Westminster , whose ancestral residence is at nearby Eaton Hall .
history
It is believed that the name of the village is derived from Latin and means 'meeting point'. Eccleston was once a township in the Broxton Hundred and also included the hamlets of Belgrave and Morris Oak . The population was 199 in 1801, 289 in 1851, 320 in 1901 and 272 in 1951.
church
Eccleston's parish church is St. Mary's Church . The church building, which is now Grade I on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest , was commissioned in 1899 by Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster . The cost of the construction, planned by architect William Porden , was £ 40,000. The church was built on the site of an earlier structure built in 1809. Part of the churchyard is unusual because of its circular shape, which suggests a pagan origin. Excavations in 1929 uncovered the remains of 20 corpses, which were dated to the year 390 AD. These are the earliest Christian burials in Cheshire.
Two war memorials are associated with the church; they commemorate the fallen of the two world wars.
Alfred Ernest Ind VC, who died on November 29, 1916, is buried in the churchyard . Ind was an officer in the Royal Horse Artillery and was awarded the Victoria Cross in the Second Boer War on December 20, 1901 on the Orange River in South Africa .
St Mary's School , built in 1878, was designed by John Douglas and still operates as a school today. It is classified as Grade II .
supporting documents
- ↑ 2001 Census: Eccleston ( English ) Office for National Statistics. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
- ↑ Cheshire Towns & Parishes: Eccleston ( English ) GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
- ↑ Craig Thornber: Photographs and history of St. Mary's Church and brief information about the village ( English ) Retrieved April 4, 2010.
- ^ Location of Alfred Earnest Ind's grave and VC medal. (Cheshire) ( English ) Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
