Shotwick is a small village and former
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 ...
, now in the parish of
Puddington, on the southern end of the
Wirral Peninsula
Wirral (; ), known locally as The Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about long and wide and is bounded by the River Dee to the west (forming the boundary with Wales), the River Mersey to ...
in the unitary authority of
Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of
Cheshire, England. The village is close to the county of
Flintshire
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on the
England–Wales border
The England–Wales border ( cy, Y ffin rhwng Cymru a Lloegr; shortened: Ffin Cymru a Lloegr), sometimes referred to as the Wales–England border or the Anglo-Welsh border, runs for from the Dee estuary, in the north, to the Severn estuary i ...
. The village was located on the River Dee until it was canalised in 1736 after which the reclaimed land has since developed into the neighbouring Deeside Industrial Park. The civil parish was abolished in 2015 and merged into Puddington.
History
Shotwick is recorded in the Domesday book (1086), within the Cheshire Hundred of Willaston, with six households listed.
Shotwick Castle was built about 1093 by
Hugh Lupus, 1st
Earl of Chester
The Earldom of Chester was one of the most powerful earldoms in medieval England, extending principally over the counties of Cheshire and Flintshire. Since 1301 the title has generally been granted to heirs apparent to the English throne, and a ...
, at what is now
Shotwick Park and near the
River Dee, before the area succumbed to the effects of
silting
Siltation, is water pollution caused by particulate terrestrial clastic material, with a particle size dominated by silt or clay. It refers both to the increased concentration of suspended sediments and to the increased accumulation (temporary or ...
. The
Norman castle lay in ruins by the 17th century and now only the foundations remain.
Henry II left from Shotwick for Ireland and
Edward I used the port to leave for Wales in 1278.
The village, including part of the hamlet of Two Mills was within the
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 ...
, with a population of 95 in 1801, 100 in 1851, 82 in 1901 and 70 in 1951.
It currently has a population of 120.
[''Chester Diocesan News'', December 2014]
Gallery
File:St. Michael's church, Shotwick - geograph.org.uk - 649501.jpg, St. Michael's church, Shotwick
File:Bench, Shotwick 1.JPG, Millennium bench
File:Shotwick 4.JPG, Cottage in Shotwick
See also
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Listed buildings in Shotwick
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St Michael's Church, Shotwick
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Shotwick Hall
References
External links
Villages in Cheshire
Former civil parishes in Cheshire
Cheshire West and Chester
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