Shotwick

infobox UK place
country= England
official_name= Shotwick
map_type= Cheshire
latitude= 53.2391
longitude= -2.994
population=
shire_district= Chester
shire_county= Cheshire
region= North West England
constituency_westminster= City of Chester
post_town= CHESTER
postcode_district= CH1
postcode_area= CH
dial_code= 01244
os_grid_reference= SJ337718 Shotwick is a village and civil parish on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England. The village is located within Chester District close to the border with Wales [http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&GridE=-2.99400&GridN=53.23910&lon=-2.99400&lat=53.23910&search_result=Shotwick%2C%20Cheshire&db=freegaz&keepicon=true&lang=&place=Shotwick%2C%20Cheshire&pc=&advanced=&client=public&addr2=&quicksearch=shotwick&addr3=&scale=100000&addr1= (Map)]

History

Henry II left from Shotwick for Ireland and Edward I used the port to leave for Wales in 1278. [citeweb|url=http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/shotwick.html|work=Craig Thornber|title=Cheshire Antiquities: Shotwick|accessdate=10 May|accessyear=2007]

Shotwick Castle was built about 1093 by Hugh Lupus, 1st Earl of Chester, [citeweb|url=http://www.saughall.gov.uk/Hist1.htm|title=History of Saughall|work=Saughall & Shotwick Parish Council|accessdate=10 May|accessyear=2007] sited at what is now Shotwick Park and near the River Dee, before the area succumbed to the effects of silting. [citeweb|url=http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba24/ba24news.html|title=Shotwick Castle|work=British Archaeology|accessdate=10 May|accessyear=2007] The Norman castle lay in ruins by the 17^th century and now only the foundations remain.

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. [citeweb|url=http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/chs/shotwick.html|title=Cheshire Parishes: Shotwick|work=GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy|accessdate=6 August|accessyear=2007]

References

ee also

*St Michael's Church, Shotwick