Shotwick Park

This article is about the former civil parish. For the house originally called Shotwick Park, see Shotwick House.

Shotwick Park
Shotwick Castle earthworks
Shotwick Park is located in Cheshire
Shotwick Park
Shotwick Park
Location within Cheshire
OS grid referenceSJ354711
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Region
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCHESTER
Postcode districtCH1
Dialling code01244
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53°13′59″N 2°57′58″W / 53.233°N 2.966°W / 53.233; -2.966

Shotwick Park is a former civil parish, now in the parishes of Saughall and Shotwick Park and Puddington, in the unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Located between the villages of Shotwick and Saughall, it is approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) north west of Chester and close to the Welsh border. Shotwick Park was formerly an extra-parochial area, in 1858 Shotwick Park became a civil parish,[1] on 1 April 2015 the parish was abolished to form "Saughall and Shotwick Park", part also incorporated into the parish of Puddington.[2]

The area is the location of the remnants of Shotwick Castle (grid reference SJ349704), built about 1093 by Hugh Lupus, 1st Earl of Chester.[3] This Norman motte and bailey fortification was constructed as part of the Welsh border defences in the area. The land surrounding the castle became enclosed as a park in 1327.[3][4] By the 1620s, the castle was in a ruinous condition.[4][5]

According to the 1831 edition of A Topographical Dictionary of England, Shotwick Park was "an extra-parochial liberty" within the Wirral Hundred. The liberty comprised "970 acres, the soil of which is clay."[5] It became a civil parish in 1858. The population was recorded at 25 in 1801, 13 in 1851, 8 in 1901, 78 in 1951 and 56 in 2001.[2]

Shotwick Park is a rural residential area with communal amenities provided in the nearby village of Saughall. A small industrial estate development also exists at Shotwick Park.

  1. ^ "Relationships and changes Shotwick Park ExP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Shotwick Park". GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b "History of Saughall". Saughall & Shotwick Park Parish Council. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Shotwick Castle". Historic England. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  5. ^ a b Lewis, Samuel (1831). "Shoston - Showell". A Topographical Dictionary of England. British History Online. pp. 90–93. Retrieved 22 July 2020.