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Appleton Thorn is a village in the
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in Cheshire, England. Appleton appeared in the
Domesday survey Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
as ''Epeltune'', meaning "the tun where the apples grew".


Bawming the Thorn

Each June, the village hosts the ceremony of "Bawming the Thorn". The current form of the ceremony dates from the 19th century, when it was part of the village's "
walking day {{More citations needed, date=August 2018 A walking day is a type of church parade. Walking days are most common in the North West region of England, where they are an annual event for many towns and villages. In some rural communities in the North ...
". It involved children from Appleton Thorn Primary School walking through the village and holding sports and games at the school. This now takes place at the village hall. The ceremony stopped in the 1930s, but was revived by the then
headmaster A head master, head instructor, bureaucrat, headmistress, head, chancellor, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the staff member of a school with the greatest responsibility for the management of the school. In som ...
, Bob Jones, in 1973.According to the plaque next to the tree. "Bawming the Thorn" occurs on the Saturday nearest to Midsummer's Day. Local schoolchildren dance around the tree in the style of a maypole chanting verses to the tune of ''
Bonnie Dundee Bonnie Dundee is the title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 led a Jacobite rising in which he died, beco ...
'', with the following repeated chorus: ''Bawming'' means "decorating" – during the ceremony the thorn tree is decorated with ribbons and garlands. According to legend, the hawthorn at Appleton Thorn grew from a cutting of the Holy Thorn at
Glastonbury Glastonbury (, ) is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. The town, which is in the Mendip district, had a population of 8,932 in the 2011 census. Glastonbur ...
, which was itself said to have sprung from the staff of
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, the man who arranged for Jesus's burial after the crucifixion.


Encompasses

Thorn Cross (HM Prison) HM Prison Thorn Cross is a Category D Adult Male Institution for males aged 18-25. The prison is located in the village of Appleton Thorn (near Warrington) in Cheshire, England. Thorn Cross is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. His ...
is in Appleton Thorn, on the site formerly occupied by Royal Naval Air Station HMS ''Blackcap'', a wartime aircrew training and aircraft repair airfield. There are a number of graves of aircrew who died at HMS ''Blackcap'', mainly in flying accidents, in St Cross churchyard, known locally as "the war graves".


Administration

Appleton Thorn falls under the borough of Warrington ward of
Grappenhall and Thelwall Grappenhall and Thelwall is a civil parish within the Borough of Warrington and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. It has a population of 9,377. The civil parish was formed in largely its present state in 1936, when the then Thelwall ...
, and the UK
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constituency of
Warrington South Warrington South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Andy Carter, a Conservative Party politician. Constituency profile Warrington South is one of two seats covering the Borough of Warri ...
, whose MP since 2019 is Andy Carter of the Conservative Party.


See also

*
Listed buildings in Appleton, Cheshire Appleton is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It contains 25 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. The parish is partly residential, including th ...


References

Notes Bibliography * {{authority control Warrington Villages in Cheshire