Peckforton
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 Black and White Cottage, in Peckforton village centre |
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| Peckforton shown within Cheshire | |
| Population | 269 (Including Ridley. 2011) |
| OS grid reference | SJ538564 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | TARPORLEY |
| Postcode district | CW6 |
| Dialling code | 01270 |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
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Peckforton is a scattered settlement (centred at SJ538564) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The settlement is located 6.5 miles (10.5 km) to the north east of Malpas and 7.5 miles (12.1 km) miles to the west of Nantwich. The total population of the civil parish is somewhat over 100, increasing at the 2011 Census to 269. Nearby villages include Bulkeley to the south, Beeston to the north, Higher Burwardsley to the west, Spurstow to the east and Bunbury to the north east.
The Peckforton Hills form the western part of the civil parish. At the northern end of the ridge stands Peckforton Castle, a Victorian mansion built in imitation of a medieval castle for John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache, and many of the local buildings were constructed in the mid-Victorian period for Lord Tollemache as part of the Peckforton Estate.
The Peckforton Hills were quarried during the Roman era. Peckforton appears in the Domesday survey of 1086, when it was held by Wulfric. The survey lists land for two ploughs. Peckforton fell in the ancient parish of Bunbury in the Eddisbury Hundred.
Peckforton and the adjacent Beeston were part of an estate purchased by John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache in 1840. Lord Tollemache built Peckforton Castle in 1844–50. Praised as a model landlord, he had over fifty farms and many cottages built on his Cheshire estate, at a cost of around £280,000. Labourers were encouraged to rent 3 acres (1.2 ha) of land to farm to supplement their income. The woods that surround the castle were largely planted in 1922. In 2008 the Tollemache family were still the major landowners in Peckforton, although the castle itself was sold in 1989.
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