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Gawsworth
Village in Cheshire, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gawsworth /ˈɡɔːzwəθ/ is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,705.[1] It is one of the eight ancient parishes of Macclesfield Hundred. Twenty acres of the civil parish were transferred to Macclesfield civil parish in 1936.[2]
Gawsworth | |
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![]() St. James' Church, Gawsworth | |
Location within Cheshire | |
Population | 1,705 (2011) |
OS grid reference | SJ888688 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | MACCLESFIELD |
Postcode district | SK11 |
Dialling code | 01625 |
Police | Cheshire |
Fire | Cheshire |
Ambulance | North West |
UK Parliament | |
53.216°N 2.166°W / 53.216; -2.166 |
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The country houses Gawsworth Old Hall, Gawsworth New Hall and Gawsworth Old Rectory are in the village. The authors of the Cheshire volume of the Buildings of England series state:[3]
There is nothing in Cheshire to compare with the loveliness of Gawsworth: three great houses and a distinguished church set around a descending string of pools, all within an enigmatic large-scale formal landscape.
A wood near the village known as Maggotty Wood is the burial place of the eighteenth-century dramatist Samuel "Maggotty" Johnson. His ghost is reputed to haunt the wood.[4]