Mobberley

For other uses, see Mobberley (disambiguation).

Mobberley is a village in Cheshire, England; it is sited between Wilmslow and Knutsford. In 2001, it had a population of 2,546,^[1] increasing to 3,050 at the 2011 Census.^[3]

Mobberley
St Wilfrid's Church
Mobberley Location within Cheshire
Population	2,546 [1]
Civil parish	Mobberley[2]
Unitary authority	Cheshire East
Shire county	Cheshire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KNUTSFORD
Postcode district	WA16
Dialling code	01565
Police	Cheshire
Fire	Cheshire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Tatton
List of places UK England Cheshire 53.3134°N 2.3263°W / 53.3134; -2.3263

History

Mobberley is mentioned, as Motburlege, in the Domesday Book of 1086. A priory was located here.

The parish church, St Wilfrid's, was mainly constructed around 1245. It was originally dedicated to both St Wilfrid and St Mary although in recent years St Mary has been "dropped".

Hill House is a 17th-century black and white timbered framed house that was originally in Woodlane Mobberley. It was the home of the Bacon family. The house was deconstructed and rebuilt on Nursery Lane in Nether Alderley to avoid destruction by the building of the second runway at Manchester Airport.^[4] The Grade-II-listed Hanson House, formerly the home of the Riddick family, was similarly relocated due to the runway construction, and is now on Moss Lane, Siddington.^[5] Antrobus Hall was built in 1709.^{[citation needed]}

Mobberley was the home of the Mallory family: George Mallory (1886–1924), a mountaineer who died attempting Mount Everest, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892–1944), who was air commander for the Allied Invasion of Normandy during World War II were both born in Mobberley. Their father, The Rev. Herbert Leigh Mallory, was rector of Mobberley.^[6][7][8]

The Victory Hall was built in 1921 as a World War I memorial at a cost of £4,500 on a plot of three quarters of an acre given by Mr R O Leycester.^{[citation needed]} It was officially opened on 30 December 1921 and was refurbished in 1992. It is also home to many village organisations including the Women's Institute, Village Society and playgroup and is a regular place for locals – and wider – to hold a variety of celebrations and meetings.^[9]

Mobberley has seen much change in recent years: first the opening of the nearby M56 from Manchester to Chester and then the Second Runway at Manchester Airport. These developments have led to Mobberley becoming largely a dormitory village of Manchester. Mobberley is well served by pubs.^{[citation needed]}

Mobberley is mentioned in the opening chapter of the children's fantasy novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) by Alan Garner.^{[10][page needed]}

Transport

The station entrance

Mobberley railway station is a stop on the Mid-Cheshire Line. Northern Trains operate generally hourly stopping services in both directions between Manchester Piccadilly, Stockport and Chester; on Sundays, the service reduces to two-hourly.^[11]

Sport

Mobberley has a cricket club which plays at Church Lane. The first team competes in Division Two of the Cheshire County Cricket League;^[12] it also has second and third teams, and a junior section.

Crown green bowls and snooker are played at the Victory Hall Memorial Club.

Notable people

• David Briggs, Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire (2010–2021), has lived at Dukenfield Hall in Mobberley since 1987.^[13]
• Dave Dee, lead vocalist in 1960s hit recording group Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (formerly Dave Dee & the Bostons)
• Chris Farnell, sports lawyer, lives in Mobberley.^[14]
• ACM Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command in World War II
• George Mallory, English mountaineer, who died in his attempt to be the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest

See also

• Cheshire portal

• Listed buildings in Mobberley
• Mobberley Old Hall
• Newton Hall, Mobberley

References

1. Census, 2001
2. "Mobberley Parish Council Website". Mobberley Parish Council. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
3. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
4. "Nether Alderley". Local List of Historic Buildings Supplementary Planning Document. Cheshire East Council.
5. "Manor house is rebuilt brick by brick at new site". Macclesfield Express.
6. Morgan, Dave (20 August 2011). "Call to preserve home of mountaineering legend". Knutsford Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
7. Orange, Vincent (2004). "Trafford Leigh-Mallory". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34483. Retrieved 24 February 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
8. "Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory". Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
9. "History". Mobberley Victory Hall. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
10. Garner, Alan (2010) [1960]. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (50th UK ed.). HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0007355211. At dawn one still October day in the long ago of the world, across the hill of Alderley, a farmer from Mobberley was riding to Macclesfield fair.
11. "Timetables and engineering information for travel with Northern". Northern Railway. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
12. Mobberley County Cricket Club. Retrieval Date: 12 October 2007.
13. Pennington, Josh (11 June 2018). "The Queen's Cheshire representative David Briggs talks about his role". The Southern Daily Echo. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
14. "Making it work: An Interview with Sports Lawyer Chris Farnell". Market Watch. 28 October 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

External links

• www.mobberley.info. Retrieval Date: October 12, 2007.
• St Wilfrid's Parish Church Website. Retrieval Date: October 12, 2007.