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Brindley is a village (at ) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East

Cheshire East

Cheshire East is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.The borough was established in April 2009 as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England, by virtue of an order under the Local Government and Public Involvement in...

and the ceremonial county of Cheshire

Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...

, England

England

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. The village lies 3¾ miles to the west of Nantwich

Nantwich

Nantwich is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The town gives its name to the parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich...

. The parish also includes the settlements of Brindley Lea, Ryders Bank and part of Radmore Green, with a total population of a little under 150. Nearby villages include Barbridge

Stoke, Crewe and Nantwich

Stoke is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The parish is predominantly rural with a total population of around 200. The largest settlement is Barbridge , which lies 3½ miles to the north west of Nantwich. The parish also...

, Burland

Burland

Burland is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, about 2½ miles west of Nantwich. The civil parish also includes the small settlements of Burland Lower Green, Burland Upper Green, Hollin Green and Stoneley Green, as well...

, Haughton

Haughton, Cheshire

Haughton is a village and civil parish which lies northwest of Nantwich in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England...

and Faddiley

Faddiley

Faddiley is a small village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is located 4 miles to the west of Nantwich. The parish also includes the small settlements of Larden Green and Woodhey or Woodhey Green, with a total...

History

The name Brindley means "a burnt clearing". The township does not appear in the Domesday survey

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

, the first mention of Brindley being in 1288. Brindley fell within the ancient parish

Ancient parishes of Cheshire

The Ancient Parishes of Cheshire refers to the group of parishes that existed in Cheshire, roughly within the period of 1200–1800. Initially, the ancient parishes had only an ecclesiastical function, but reforms initiated by King Henry VIII, developed by Queen Elizabeth I and expanded by...

of Acton

Acton, Cheshire (ancient parish)

Acton was an ancient parish in the Nantwich Hundred of Cheshire, England.At one time it included the townships of Acton, Aston juxta Mondrum, Austerson, Baddington, Brindley, Burland, Cholmondeston, Edleston, Faddiley, Henhull, Hurleston, Poole, Stoke, Worleston, most of Coole Pilate, parts of...

and was once part of the manor of Baddiley

Baddiley

Baddiley is a scattered settlement and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The civil parish also includes the north-western part of the village of Ravensmoor , as well as the small settlements of Baddiley Hulse, Batterley Hill, and...

. Landowners included Willis Allen in 1656, Sir Thomas Mainwaring and Sir Thomas Brereton in 1671, and the Wilbraham and Tomkinson families from 1798.

Medieval landowners

In medieval times Brindley township and the Norman landowners that took its name were called: Burndelegh, Birnedelegh, Burendeleg, Brundelegh, Brundeley, Brundylegh and later in Tudor times until the 18th century, 'Brundley', eventually evolving to the modern Brindley.

Earlier, in c1272 a marriage was arranged to unite two Norman families. Gilbert de Stoke, son of Randle (Ranulphus) de Praers, was betrothed to Isolda de Brereton, daughter of Sir Ralph Brereton. As part of Isolda's marriage settlement, land at Brundelegh (Brindley), was given to Gilbert. Their first son decided to call himself Brundelegh de Brundeley (Brindley) after the land that he had inherited.

In 1288 a trespass case in which Philip Russell sued William de Bulkelegh and Richard de Burndelegh and William son of Matilda de Stok. Also 'Birndelegh' when Richard the clerk of that place failed to prosecute William de Spurstow that same year. The same source - The County Court Rolls - also state that the Burland family had lands in Burndelegh.

On 10 November 1361, Edward, Earl of Chester, granted to John de Brundelegh the office of Constable of Beeston Castle. Salary: £4 a year and receiver of St. Pierre lands of which, Brindley was a part, and also turf from Peckforton Moss (income from a valuable fuel). Orders: To reside in the castle.
Beeston Castle is less than 6 miles from Brindley.
Edward, Earl of Chester in 1361, was son of Edward III and was also Prince of Wales, famously known as the Black Prince.

In common with much of the surrounding area, the village was occupied by Royalist forces as they advanced on Nantwich

Nantwich

in December 1643 during the Civil War

English Civil War

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.

The civil parish was enlarged from 1090 acres (4.4 km²) to 1250 acres (5.1 km²) in a series of boundary changes between 1871 and 1891.

Governance

Since 1967, Brindley has been administered by the Brindley and Faddiley Parish Council, jointly with the adjacent civil parish of Faddiley

Faddiley

. From 1974 the civil parish was served by Crewe and Nantwich

Crewe and Nantwich

Crewe and Nantwich was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district with borough status in Cheshire, England. It had a population of 111,007...

Borough Council, which was succeeded on 1 April 2009 by the new unitary authority

Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national...

of Cheshire East

Cheshire East

. Brindley falls in the parliamentary constituency of Eddisbury

Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Eddisbury is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.- Boundaries :...

, and has been represented by Stephen O'Brien since 1999.

Geography, transport and economy

Radmore Covert lies at , and there is also a small strip of woodland at . An unnamed brook runs east–west across the civil parish and there are numerous small meres and ponds scattered across the farmland. The land use is predominantly agricultural, with cattle pasture, horse paddocks and some arable land

Arable land

In geography and agriculture, arable land is land that can be used for growing crops. It includes all land under temporary crops , temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow...

The A534 (Wrexham Road) between Nantwich

Nantwich

and Wrexham

Wrexham

Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham County Borough, and the largest town in North Wales, located in the east of the region. It is situated between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley close to the border with Cheshire, England...

runs east–west towards the southern boundary of the parish. Other through routes include Brindley Lea Lane and Brindley Hall Road, which both run broadly north from the A534 towards Haughton

Haughton, Cheshire

Haughton is a village and civil parish which lies northwest of Nantwich in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England...

, Long Lane, which runs to the north west from the A534 to Radmore Green and Haughton, and Kidderton Lane, which runs to the south east from the A534 towards Hollin Green

Burland

Demography

According to the 2001 census, the civil parish had a population of 134, in 58 households. The population has remained broadly constant since the beginning of the 19th century; the historical population figures were 148 (1801), 186 (1851), 127 (1901) and 123 (1951).

Landmarks

Radbrook Cottage on Long Lane in Radmore Green is a timber-framed

Timber framing

Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...

black-and-white cottage which dates from 1617. A black-and-white cottage on Kidderton Lane dates originally from the late 17th century. Both cottages are listed at grade II. Brindley Lea Hall is a brown-brick farmhouse which was built around 1860 as part of the Tollemache estate; it is also grade II listed. The present house was built on the site of a moated house, believed to be the seat of the Allen family during the 17th century. The former Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Brindley village dates from 1873.

Education

The Brindley and Faddiley School was built on the common in Brindley Lea in 1850; it closed in 1983. Brindley civil parish falls within the catchment areas of Acton Church of England Primary School in Acton

Acton, Cheshire

Acton is a small village and civil parish lying immediately west of the town of Nantwich in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of...

and Malbank School and Sixth Form College

Malbank School and Sixth Form College

Malbank School is a comprehensive secondary school and sixth form in Nantwich, Cheshire with pupils of both sexes aged from 11 to 18.-Admissions:It is in the west of Nantwich, close to the boundary with Henhull, on the A534 and the Shropshire Union Canal....

in Nantwich

Nantwich

Culture and community

The Goodwill Hall in Brindley Lea (at ) was built by volunteers in 1962–64, based on an army hut from Isycoed. It forms a venue for theatrical and musical performances as part of the Cheshire Rural Touring Network and also provides a meeting place for local organisations. The mobile library

Bookmobile

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service visits Brindley village weekly.

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