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Marbury is a small village located in the civil parish of Marbury cum Quoisley, within the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is administered jointly with the adjacent civil parishes of Norbury (near Nantwich) and Wirswall. The village lies around 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Whitchurch in Shropshire and 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Nantwich in Cheshire. Nearby villages include Malpas and Wrenbury. The civil parish is on the boundary with Shropshire, and also contains the small settlements of Hollins Lane, Marley Green and Quoisley, as well as parts of Hollyhurst and Willeymoor, with a total population of 352. The area is agricultural, with dairy farming the main industry. A small area in the east of the civil parish is part of the Combermere estate. The civil parish is believed to have been inhabited since the Anglo-Saxon period, and contains many historic buildings, the earliest being the 15th-century St. Michael's Church.
Marbury cum Quoisley was a township in Wrenbury ancient parish in Nantwich Hundred which became a civil parish in 1866. The ancient parish church for the township of Marbury cum Quoisley was St. Margaret's in Wrenbury. St. Michael's Church in Marbury was an ancient chapelry in the ancient parish of Whitchurch in Shropshire. It became the district church for Marbury cum Quoisley in 1870. The population was 372 in 1801, 355 in 1851, 317 in 1901, 291 in 1951, and 244 in 2001. [edit] Research TipsTemplate:Research Tips Cheshire General
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