Adlington, Cheshire

infobox UK place
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static_image_caption=Adlington village hall
official_name= Adlington
latitude= 53.319
longitude= -2.133
population = 1,081
shire_district= Macclesfield
civil_parish= Adlington
shire_county= Cheshire
region= North West England
country = England
constituency_westminster= Macclesfield
post_town= MACCLESFIELD
postcode_area= SK
postcode_district= SK10
dial_code= 01625
os_grid_reference= SJ912803

Adlington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is known as Eduluintune in the Domesday Book.cite web|url=http://www.adlingtonparish.org.uk/|title=Adlington Parish Council|accessdate=2008-04-04] According to the 2001 census the civil parish had a population of 1,081 people across 401 households.citeweb |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=792619&c=adlington&d=16&e=15&g=429225&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |title=2001 UK Census|accessdate=2008-04-04] There is a primary school (mixed, non-denominational) in the village.citeweb|url=http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=135178
title=Adlington Primary School|accessdate=2008-02-25]

A train station, located on the Manchester-Macclesfield line, is used mainly by commuters to Manchester and Stockport.

History

Adlington was a chapelry and township in Prestbury ancient parish. Youngs, F. A. (1991). page 5] It became a separate civil parish in 1866, and had slight changes to its civil parish boundaries in 1936. It was in Hamestan hundred, which later became Macclesfield Hundred and, later still, was assigned to be part of Macclesfield Poor Law Union and Rural Sanitary District. When Macclesfield Rural District council was established in 1894, Adlington became a civil parish within it. [Philips, A. D. M. and Philips, C. B. (2002). pages 10–11.] In 1974, local government re-organisation led to it becoming part of the Borough of Macclesfield.cite web|url=http://www.macclesfield.gov.uk|title=Macclesfield Borough Council website|accessdate=2008-04-04]

Adlington Hall, dating from at least the end of the 13th century, is located at the western end of the village. [cite web|url=http://www.statelyhomes.com/areas/details.asp?HID=15&ID=1443&path=12,16,57,1443|title=Adlington Hall|accessdate=2008-04-04]

Adlington made the news in January 2008, when a delivery vehicle shed 18 tonnes of mango chutney onto the road through the village. A spokesman for F Swain and Sons, the company which owns the lorry, said: "It was just one of those things." [cite web|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1033413_chutney_truck_in_a_pickle |title=Chutney truck in a pickle (Manchester Evening News)|accessdate=2008-04-04]

Governance

Adlington Parish Council, which administers the civil parish, is made up of ten parish councillors and one parish clerk. Adlington is in the Prestbury ward for the purposes of borough and county council elections, to which it sends two and one councillor, respectively. [cite web|url=http://www.election-maps.co.uk/electmaps.jsf|title=Elections Maps UK|accessdate=2008-04-04 Enter the details for Macclesfield Local Government Area.] The parish council sits each month, and at these meetings, the two borough and single county councillor will also often attend.

Notes and references

Notes

Bibliography

*cite book|last=Phillips |first=A. D. M. |coauthors= Phillips, C. B. |year=2002 |title=A new historical atlas of Cheshire|location= Chester, UK |publisher=Cheshire County Council and Cheshire Community Council Publications Trust |isbn=0904532461
*cite book|last=Youngs |first=F. A. |year=1991 |title=Guide to the local administrative units of England. (Volume 1: Northern England) |location=London |publisher=Royal Historical Society |isbn=0861931270

External links

* [http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=adlington+uk&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=15.162896,29.619141&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=53.330258,-2.110748&spn=0.088779,0.344009&om=1 Map of Adlington]