St Mary’s Church Weaverham – A Background History and Description of the Windows in this Historic Building. THE COWARD WINDOW –South Aisle (1910) Engraved Brass Plaque: To the glory of God and in loving memory of his Father, Mother, Brothers and Sister, and Ancestors interred in this Churchyard, who now…
War Memorials The War Memorials Trust defines a war memorial as ‘any physical object created, erected or installed to commemorate those involved in or affected by a conflict of war’. A war memorial can be anything from a monument or plaque to a tree. It can be a locomotive, a…
Could a Roman road have passed through Weaverham from Sandiway heading towards Warrington? Mr Kirk (footnote 1) in the 1880s certainly thought so. He maintained that in 1876 the remains of a road were found under Weaverham’s church chancel. The road would have run from the area of Cuddington Station,…
You may have been aware of the recent events to commemorate the first day of battle of the Somme on the 1st of July. Perhaps you saw young men in World War 1 uniforms in Northwich, each representing one of the 19,240 men from the British forces who died on…
The first item below, added to the archive, is a painting showing a part of Weaverham as it was before the turn not of the last century but the one before. It still seems a little strange to think that “last century” now means the Twentieth rather than the Nineteenth.…
The original name for the township was ‘Weaverham cum Milton’; the Parish (a parish being composed of several townships) was ‘Weaverham’. The parishes were set up by Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 7th century. In the Domesday Book there are only a small number of parishes with a priest…
Since its formation Weaverham History Society has produced a number of publications. The details of these are as follows: As part of a Heritage Lottery Foundation funded Oral History Project, in 2004 Weaverham History Society published “Greetings from Weaverham, An Oral History“. In this book is recorded some of the…
A few interested people had for many years been transcribing the church records whilst others had been studying photographs and other aspects of village history. In 1983 they got together and on 21 March the Weaverham History Club was formed. This was renamed the Weaverham History Society in April 1987.…
Seventy years ago Nook Farm was destroyed by German bomb. This is vividly recalled by George Moss in his book “Village of Moonbeams” first published by CC Publishing in 1998 and reprinted in 2008. To commemorate this CC Publishing have kindly allowed us to reproduce this extract. “Village of Moonbeams”…
Charles Bebbington lived in Poplar Cottage in the High Street. For over a century (1840-1942), it was occupied by the Bebbington family who were cabinetmakers and wood carvers, the last member being Charles Bebbington who was Church Sexton and Parish Clerk at the Parish Church for 39 years.
