Shotwick
{{Short description|Village in Cheshire, England}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
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|country= England
|official_name= Shotwick
|coordinates = {{coord|53.239|-2.994|display=inline,title}}
|population=
|civil_parish= Puddington
|unitary_england= Cheshire West and Chester
|lieutenancy_england= Cheshire
|region= North West England
|constituency_westminster= Chester North and Neston
|post_town= CHESTER
|postcode_district= CH1
|postcode_area= CH
|dial_code= 01244
|os_grid_reference= SJ337718
|static_image= Houses in Shotwick - geograph.org.uk - 203126.jpg
|static_image_width= 240px
|static_image_caption= Houses in Shotwick village
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Shotwick is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Puddington, on the southern end of the Wirral Peninsula in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is close to the county of Flintshire on the England–Wales border.{{cite map |url=https://binged.it/2JNZRj8 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |title=117 Chester & Wrexham/Caer A Wrecsam |scale=1:50000 |series=Landranger}} 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{{cite web |url=http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ3371/shotwick/ |title=Place: Shotwick |publisher=Open Domesday |access-date=19 June 2018}} (1086), within the Cheshire Hundred of Willaston, with six households listed. Shotwick Castle was built about 1093 by Hugh Lupus, 1st Earl of Chester,{{cite web|url=http://www.saughall.gov.uk/Hist1.htm|title=History of Saughall|publisher=Saughall & Shotwick Parish Council|access-date=10 May 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928060652/http://www.saughall.gov.uk/Hist1.htm|archive-date=28 September 2007}} at what is now Shotwick Park and near the River Dee, before the area succumbed to the effects of silting.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba24/ba24news.html|title=Ornamental water garden found at Cheshire castle |magazine=British Archaeology|date=May 1997 |archive-date=16 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716194835/http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba24/ba24news.html |access-date=19 June 2018}} The Norman castle lay in ruins by the 17th century and now only the foundations remain.
Henry II left from Shotwick for Ireland and Edward I used the port to leave for Wales in 1278.{{cite web |url=http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/shotwick.html|first=Craig|last=Thornber|title=Shotwick |publisher=Cheshire Antiquities |access-date=19 June 2018}}
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.Chester Diocesan News, December 2014 The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2015 and merged into Puddington.{{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CHS/shotwick|title=Shotwick|publisher=GENUKI|access-date=19 June 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}}
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
{{Portal|Cheshire}}
References
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External links
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