Place:Barthomley, Cheshire, England

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NameBarthomley
Alt namesChurch Banksource: hamlet in parish
Radway Greensource: hamlet in parish
Rushey Lakesource: hamlet in parish
Smith's Greensource: hamlet in parish
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates53.068°N 2.349°W
Located inCheshire, England
See alsoNantwich Hundred, Cheshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Nantwich Rural, Cheshire, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1974
Crewe and Nantwich District, Cheshire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area 1974-2009
Cheshire East, Cheshire, Englandunitary authority covering the area since 2009
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Barthomley is a village and ancient parish, and is now a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 and the 2011 census' the parish had a population of 202. The village is situated near junction 16 of the M6 motorway and by the border with Staffordshire. It is about three miles south-west of Alsager.

The hamlet of Radway Green, location of a Royal Ordnance Factory, is within the parish, north-east of the village of Barthomley and just outside Alsager. There was a railway station in Radway Green, on the Crewe to Derby Line, as well as a station reserved for the factory at Millway. However, both of these are now closed. Radway Green and Barthomley station closed to goods traffic on 7 June 1964, followed by its closure to passengers on 7 November 1966.

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Barthomley was an ancient parish in Nantwich Hundred which became a civil parish in 1866. Its church was dedicated to St. Bertoline.

It included the following townships

As well as Radway Bank it includes the hamlets of Church Bank, Rushey Lake, Smith's Green, and Englesea Brook (which has been redirected to Weston by Crewe. The population was 184 in 1801, 450 in 1851, 292 in 1901 and 263 in 1951.

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