Hoole Village

The former Hoole Village parish contained the southern end of the M53 motorway where it becomes the A55 road and is crossed by the A56 road. This junction is known as Hoole Island Junction.{{cite web|url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Hoole+Island+Jct,+Chester |title=Hoole Island Junction, Chester|publisher=Google Maps|access-date=31 August 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Hoole_Island_Junction |title=Hoole Island Junction|publisher=SABRE|access-date=31 August 2020}} The parish also included Hoole Hall, which is now a hotel.{{cite web|url=https://doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/united-kingdom/doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-and-spa-chester-MANDTDI/index.html |title=DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Spa Chester|access-date=31 August 2020}}

In 2004 the population was 230,{{Harvnb|Latham|2005|p=9.}} rising to 319 at the time of the 2011 census.{{NOMIS2011|id=E04011114|title=Hoole Village Parish|access-date=25 April 2021}}

In September 1955 a prehistoric arrowhead and a worked flake were found in a garden in the parish. The arrowhead was dated to the period between the Early Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (2350 BC to 701 BC). In 1995 aerial photography showed evidence of a Roman practice fort near to Hoole Hall. It is believed that the Roman road from Chester to Wilderspool (now part of Warrington) passed through the parish.{{Harvnb|Latham|2005|pp=10–14.}}.

There are two tiers of local government covering Hoole Village, at parish and unitary authority level: Mickle Trafford and District Parish Council, and Cheshire West and Chester Council. The parish council generally meets at the village hall in Mickle Trafford.{{cite web |title=Agendas |url=https://mickletrafford.org.uk/agenda/ |website=Mickle Trafford and District Parish Council |access-date=19 January 2025}}

Hoole was historically a township which was mostly in the ancient parish of Plemstall, which formed part of the Broxton Hundred of Cheshire.{{efn|A small part of the township in its southernmost corner comprised part of the parish of St John the Baptist, Chester, but lay outside the city's municipal boundaries.{{cite book |editor1-last=Thacker |editor1-first=A. T. |editor2-last=Lewis |editor2-first=C. P. |title=A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 2 |date=2005 |publisher=Victoria County History |location=London |pages=125–133 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol5/pt2/pp125-133#anchorn10 |access-date=21 January 2025 |chapter=Churches and religious bodies: The collegiate church of St John}}{{cite book |title=Census of England and Wales 1871: Population Tables, Volume 2 |date=1872 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |location=London |page=393 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Census_of_England_and_Wales_1871/oQQ4AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA393&printsec=frontcover |access-date=21 January 2025 |quote=In 1861 the township of Hoole was returned as being entirely in the parish of Plemonstall; part of the township, however, is within the parish of St John the Baptist.}}}} From the 17th century onwards, parishes were gradually given various civil functions under the poor laws, in addition to their original ecclesiastical functions. In some cases, including Hoole, the civil functions were exercised by the township rather than the wider parishes. In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Hoole became a civil parish.{{cite book |last1=Youngs |first1=Frederic |title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume II, Northern England |date=1991 |publisher=Royal Historical Society |location=London |isbn=0861931270 |page=xv}}{{cite web |title=Hoole Township / Civil Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10064326 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=21 January 2025}}

In 1864, a Hoole local government district was created. Its promoters initially sought to have the whole township included in the district, but objections from ratepayers in the more rural north-eastern part of the township led to the district covering only the south-western part of the township.{{London Gazette|issue=22838|page=1765|date=1864}} Local government districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894. The 1894 Act also directed that civil parishes could no longer straddle district boundaries, and so the parish of Hoole was reduced to match the urban district, and the rural part of the old parish outside the urban district was made a separate parish, which Cheshire County Council chose to name Hoole Village.{{cite news |title=Hoole Local Board: Farewell Meeting |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000157%2F18941117&page=5 |access-date=21 January 2025 |work=Cheshire Observer |date=17 November 1894 |location=Chester |page=5}}{{cite web |last1=Langston |first1=Brett |title=Chester Registration District |url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/chester.html |website=UK BMD |access-date=21 January 2025}}

The boundary between Hoole and Hoole Village was changed in 1936 and again in 1954, when Hoole was absorbed into the city of Chester, subject to a realignment of the boundary with Hoole Village to follow the A41 road.{{cite web |title=Hoole Urban District |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10003362#tab02 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=21 January 2025}}{{cite web |title=Administrative Areas Series: Sheet 33/46 A, 1948 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/196757744 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=21 January 2025}}{{cite web |title=1:25,000 Sheet SJ46, 1966 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/207349799 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=21 January 2025}}

Hoole Village was too small to have a parish council, having a parish meeting instead. In 1960, the parish was placed under a grouped parish council with Bridge Trafford and Mickle Trafford, called the Mickle Trafford and District Parish Council.{{cite news |title=Three villages, one council |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000157%2F19600730&page=17 |access-date=22 January 2025 |work=Cheshire Observer |date=30 July 1960 |location=Chester |page=17}} In 1972, the group of parishes was enlarged to also include Picton and Wimbolds Trafford.{{cite news |title=Rural District of Chester: Grouping of Parishes under Common Parish Councils |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003591%2F19721124&page=32 |access-date=7 February 2025 |work=Chester Chronicle |date=24 November 1972}} On 1 April 2015 the five parishes within the group were merged into a single civil parish called Mickle Trafford and District, subject to some minor adjustments to boundaries with neighbouring parishes.{{cite web |title=The Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) (Bridge Trafford, Hoole Village, Mickle Trafford, Picton and Wimbolds Trafford) Order 2015 |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20221202003348mp_/https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/25960/BridgeTrafford-HooleVillageMickleTrafford-PictonWimboldsTrafford.pdf |website=Local Government Boundary Commission for England |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=19 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CHS/mickletrafford|title=Mickle Trafford|publisher=GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy|access-date=24 March 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/cheshire%20west%20and%20chester.html|title=Cheshire West and Chester Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=2 September 2023}}

Hoole Hall was built as a large house around 1720. The hall itself,{{cite web |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1229523|title=Images of England: Hoole Hall |access-date=8 November 2007 |publisher=English Heritage }} its attached conservatory built in the mid 19th century,{{cite web |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1229370|title=Images of England: Conservatory attached to the south front of Hoole Hall |access-date=8 November 2007 |publisher=English Heritage }} and the ha-ha wall and railings of the west terrace of the house{{cite web |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1229531|title=Images of England: Ha-ha wall and railings of west terrace at Hoole Hall |access-date=8 November 2007 |publisher=English Heritage }} are Grade II listed buildings. The hall is now used as a hotel. Also listed Grade II is a restored pinfold in Oak Lane.{{cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1229371|title=Images of England: Pinfold |access-date=8 November 2007 |publisher=English Heritage }}

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