August 2020 Gardens in Weaverham Well, we have reached August. Our gardens are changing as they progress from Spring to Summer. All the beautiful bulbs, the snowdrops, daffodils, tulips and many more quietly come up year after year to herald Spring. Then, as the leaves begin to clothe the trees…
COVID -19 – Surviving the “Great Lockdown” With limited access to movement anywhere, DIY and (for those fortunate to have one) gardening, and all of their associated tasks have dominated in this household. But they do seem to have become intertwined. An old but still useful set of step ladders,…
In June last year the Memorial Orchard website wrote about the role 95 year old Ernie Nelson of Hartford played in the D-Day landings. http://orchard.weaverham.org.uk/d-day-veteran-ernie-nelson/ In this weeks VE Day Commemorative issue of the Northwich Guardian we learn more of his story. Ernie, who was a wireless telegraphist on HMS…
Excerpts have been taken from the letter-bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope, published in 1913. Lady Elizabeth was the sister in law of the Rev Charles Spencer Stanhope, the vicar of Weaverham from 1835 to 1874. On 27 September 1825 the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first to carry passengers as…
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,…
Crime and Punishment With crime and punishment never far from the news a look back through the archives reveals that in times past these issues have never been far away from the public gaze. Two cases featured in our records show how justice was dispensed in the early and late…
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 the Local Agenda 21 initiative, we helped publish a leaflet : Weaverham, a walk through the village, its history and ancient woodland. Compiled by Weaverham History Society. Supported…
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.…
