Puddington is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
on the
Wirral Peninsula
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, in the unitary authority of
Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of
Cheshire, England. It is located to the south east of the town of
Neston
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and close to the border with
Wales
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.
Puddington has as its centrepiece a
village green
A village green is a common open area within a village or other settlement. Historically, a village green was common grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other stock, often at the edge of a rural settlement, used for gathering cattle t ...
which hosts the annual Christmas carol service and summer
barbecue.
In the
2001 census the village of Puddington had 325 inhabitants,
[
which had risen to 381 by the 2011 census.
]
History
The name derives from Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ...
, likely meaning 'Put(t)a's farmstead or settlement'.
Puddington is recorded in the Domesday Book
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 manus ...
of 1086 as ''Potitone'',
within the Wilaveston Hundred of Cheshire. Ten households were listed: four villagers, four smallholders, one slave and one 'riders'.
The population was measured at 139 in 1801, 176 in 1851, 126 in 1901 and increasing to 410 by 1951.Wirral Hundred
The Hundred of Wirral is the ancient administrative area for the Wirral Peninsula. Its name is believed to have originated from the ''Hundred of Wilaveston'', the historic name for Willaston, which was an important assembly point in the Wirral ...
, it became a civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in 1866. Puddington was added to Wirral Rural District
Wirral Rural District was a rural district on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England from 1894 to 1933. It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 from the Wirral Rural Sanitary District.
From the beginning of the twentieth centur ...
in 1894, then from 1933 most of the village became part of Chester Rural District. This was abolished on 1 April 1974, when local government reorganisation in England and Wales created the non-metropolitan district
Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of Districts of England, local government district in England. As created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties (colloquially ''shi ...
of Chester.[
]
Governance
The civil parish of Puddington includes the hamlets of Badger's Rake (part), Benty Heys, Croxton Wood, Shotwick
Shotwick is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Puddington, on the southern end of the Wirral Peninsula in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The villag ...
and Woodbank. Part of Two Mills was also within its boundaries until 2015.
As of , Puddington is within the Saughall and Mollington Ward of the Cheshire West and Chester unitary authority.
See also
* Listed buildings in Puddington, Cheshire
References
External links
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Villages in Cheshire
Civil parishes in Cheshire