Rostherne is a 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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
, now in the parish of
Millington and Rostherne, in the unitary authority area of
Cheshire East
Cheshire East is a unitary authority area with borough status in Cheshire, England. The local authority is Cheshire East Council, which is based in the town of Sandbach. Other towns within the area include Crewe, Macclesfield, Congleton, Wilms ...
and the ceremonial county of
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 ...
, England (). In 2001 the parish had a population of 160.
To the north of the village is
Rostherne Mere and to the south is
Tatton Park
Tatton Park is a historic Estate (house), estate in Cheshire, England, north of the town of Knutsford. It contains a mansion, Tatton Hall; a medieval manor house, Tatton Old Hall; Tatton Park Gardens, a farm and a Deer park (England), deer park o ...
. The
A556 road
The A556 is a road in England which extends from the village of Delamere, Cheshire, Delamere in Cheshire West and Chester to the Bowdon Interchange in Cheshire East, bordering Greater Manchester. The road contains a mixture of single carriagewa ...
passes to its west.
History
In the 11th century Rostherene was called ''Rodestorne'', said to mean the Lake of the Holy Cross, from the
Anglo-Saxon
The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...
''Rodes'', meaning cross and the northern word ''torne'' or ''tarne'' meaning lake. At the time of the
Domesday Book
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the parish belonged to Gilbert de Venables,
Baron
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of
Kinderton, who displaced Ulviet the Saxon as owner of the lands, although there was then only one rateable field in the parish, one team and two acres of wood, the whole only being worth four
shillings
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a year. By 1286 almost all of Rostherne had become part of the Tatton estate, having been sold to Massey of Tatton, except for a portion retained by the Leghs.
On 1 April 2023 the parish was abolished to form "Millington and Rostherne".
Buildings
St Mary's Church, Rostherne, is a Grade I
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
,
whose
rectory
A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of a given religion, serving as both a home and a base for the occupant's ministry. Residences of this type can have a variety of names, such as manse, p ...
was for many centuries in the possession of the
Leighs of West Hall, High Legh.
Notable people
*
Michael Wrigley (1924-1995), first-class cricketer, British Army officer and civil servant
See also
*
Listed buildings in Rostherne
References
External links
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Villages in Cheshire
Former civil parishes in Cheshire
Borough of Cheshire East