This year the Weaverham History Society is arranging a visit to the historic Anderton Boat Lift and to have a cruise on the River Weaver. The trip is open to all as you don’t have to be a member of the Society to join us. The cruise will start at…
Originating in damp woods and meadows across Europe and the Middle East, snowdrops can now be found growing happily across the UK. They prefer damp soil and are often to be found in broadleaved woodland and along riverbanks, but can also be seen in parks, gardens, cemeteries, meadows and scrub.…
The Committee would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas and New Year and a healthy and happy 2026.
The website is now back on line after being in Maintenance Mode for several weeks. Sorry for the time that this has taken, but we had to check all the pages for potential copyright issues in the images that had been used. Some pages remain “Unavailable” while we edit the…
Bradshaw House as you see it now on Lawton Street, Congleton, was built in 1820 and is a grade II listed Georgian-fronted property. Bradshaw House, Congleton by David Weston, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The name, however, derives from an occupant of a previous house on the site which…
Operation Neptune, often referred to as D-Day, took place 80 years ago, on Tuesday, 6 June 1944. It was preceded by extensive aerial and naval bombardment and marked the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history and the operation began the liberation…
(and impeccable handwriting). 29/09/2022 One of the more recognisable buildings that has been featured before is the Barrymore Institute. It is not one of the listed buildings in the village but that doesn’t mean it has not played a major part in the history of Weaverham. An earlier article on…
The Weaverham History Society has just published a new book. It is based upon an earlier book by the Society from the 1980s called ‘Old Weaverham – a Pictorial History’. With the help of Anne Loader Publications, we have updated and reissued this book. The new publication is called ‘Weaverham…
The 2023 Weaverham Rose Queen is Poppy Sofia Gibson. She is 14 years old and attends The County High School Leftwich. Her hobbies are football and troupe. We wish her a wonderful time for her year representing Weaverham. The history of the Weaverham Rose Fete started in the early 1900s…
