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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
, now in the parish of
Puddington, on the southern end of the
Wirral Peninsula
The Wirral Peninsula (), 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 Dee Estuary to the west, the Mersey Estuary to the east, and Liverpo ...
in the unitary authority of
Cheshire West and Chester
Cheshire West and Chester is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Cheshire, England. It was established on 1 April 2009 as part of the 2009 structural changes to l ...
and the ceremonial county of
Cheshire
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, England. The village is close to the county of
Flintshire
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on the
England–Wales border
The England–Wales border, 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 in the south, separating England and Wales.
It has followed broadly ...
. 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.
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, at what is now
Shotwick Park and near the
River Dee, before the area succumbed to the effects of
silting. The
Norman castle lay in ruins by the 17th century and now only the foundations remain.
Henry II
Henry II may refer to:
Kings
* Saint Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (972–1024), crowned King of Germany in 1002, of Italy in 1004 and Emperor in 1014
*Henry II of England (1133–89), reigned from 1154
*Henry II of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1271–1 ...
left from Shotwick for Ireland and
Edward I
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Latin: Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 125 ...
used the port to leave for Wales in 1278.
The village, including part of the hamlet of Two Mills was within the
Wirral Hundred, with a population of 95 in 1801, 100 in 1851, 82 in 1901 and 70 in 1951.
It currently has a population of 120. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2015 and merged into Puddington.
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
*
Listed buildings in Shotwick
*
St Michael's Church, Shotwick
*
Shotwick Hall
References
External links
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Villages in Cheshire
Former civil parishes in Cheshire
Cheshire West and Chester