Horton-by-Malpas is a 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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

, now in the parish of

Shocklach Oviatt and District Shocklach Oviatt and District is a civil parish in the Cheshire West and Chester unitary authority, in the county of Cheshire, England. The parish was created in 2015, combining the previous civil parishes of Caldecott, Church Shocklach, Hor ...

, in the borough of

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and

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Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...

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. In 2001 it had a population of 62. The parish included the hamlet of Horton Green.

History

The name ''Horton'' derives from

Old English Old English ( or , or ), 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 developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

''horu'' 'dirt' and ''tūn'' 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'. Horton was formerly a

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in the parish of

Tilston Tilston is a village and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the Ceremonial counties of England, county of Cheshire, England. It is located near the larger towns of Chester to the ...

, in 1866 Horton became a separate civil parish. From 1974 to 2009 it was in

Chester Chester is a cathedral city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, Wales, River Dee, close to the England–Wales border. With a built-up area population of 92,760 in 2021, it is the most populous settlement in the borough of Cheshire West an ...

district. On 1 April 2015 the parish was abolished to form Shocklach Oviatt and District. Horton Grange was built in 1629 and subsequently altered. It is

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with

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ging, and partly rebuilt in brick, with

slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism. It is the finest-grained foliated metamorphic ro ...

roofs. It is in two storeys, and consists of a main wing and two cross-wings. The building is Grade II listed.

Horton Green

The small hamlet of Horton Green lay within the parish. The hamlet is recorded as "Horton Green" in 1831, but had been known as "Horton" as early as 1240.

References

External links

Former civil parishes in Cheshire Cheshire West and Chester {{Cheshire-geo-stub