High Legh
| High Legh, Cheshire | |
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 Church of St John, High Legh (formerly domestic chapel to the West Hall) |
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 High Legh, Cheshire
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| High Legh, Cheshire shown within Cheshire | |
| Population | 1,653 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SJ700840 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | KNUTSFORD |
| Postcode district | WA16 |
| Dialling code | 01925 |
| Police | Cheshire |
| Fire | Cheshire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
| UK Parliament | |
High Legh is a village, civil and ecclesiastical parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Six miles north west of Knutsford, seven miles east of Warrington and seventeen miles south west of Manchester City Centre, according to the 2001 census, the population of the entire civil parish was 1,632, increasing slightly to 1,653 at the 2011 Census.
Unusually this village was the seat of two ancient landed gentry families for generations, namely: Leigh of West Hall and Cornwall-Legh of East Hall. Both halls have now been demolished, but both families are still represented today, the head of the "West Hall" family being Sir Edward Leigh MP but no longer associated or living within the parish and that of the "East Hall" family headed by Richard, 6th Baron Grey of Codnor. A member of a cadet branch of the Leigh of West Hall family was created a baronet in 1773 for Sir Egerton Leigh, but this title is now dormant and other cadet branches were the Leigh-Traffords of nearby Oughtrington Hall as well as the Barons Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire and the Barons Newton of Lyme Park. The third lordship of the manor was held by the Egerton family of Tatton and all three landed families swapped and consolidated their estates throughout the 18th and 19th centuries until the Egerton Leighs sold their High Legh estate to the Cornwall-Leghs just before World War I. When Maurice, 4th and last Lord Egerton of Tatton, sold off the remaining farms and land in High Legh in the 1930s, so ended a connection dating back to the 13th century.
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