This is not an official website
for Ashton Hayes but has been compiled for my own
information and interest. It has been published since 1999, I hope that other
people will find it useful.
Here are a few
photographs
taken around the village.
Ashton
Hayes is part of the parish of Ashton Hayes
which includes
Ashton Hayes,
Mouldsworth and
Horton cum Peel. It
is situated about 7 miles from Chester and is close to
Delamere
Forest.
In 2004, the village changed its name from
Ashton because of confusion with the many other British
places of that name. You can read about the reasons for the
change in this
Guardian article
The village is mentioned in the
Domesday
Book.
Its entry roughly translated is: In
Riseton hundred Richard de Vernon holds Ashton. Toret held it
and he was a free man. There are four hides that pay geld. There
is land for five ploughs. In the demesne there is one plough and
two slaves and two villeins and two radmen and three bordars
with two ploughs. There is a wood half a league long and one
acre wide. In the time of King Edward it was worth sixteen
shillings, now it is worth twenty shillings. He found it waste
You can now search and download images online for a small fee at
the National Archives
Domesday
site
In the eleventh century, the manor was held by the
Vernon family. The Mainwaring family owned it in the thirteenth
century and it passed through the female line to the Trussel family.
Again,
through the female line, it passed to John de Vere,
5th Earl of Oxford in the sixteenth century.
In about
1579/80, his heir, the 7th Earl sold Ashton to Sir Christopher
Hatton.
It then passed through various owners but was bought in the early
nineteenth century by Booth Grey who sold it to William Atkinson
in the 1840s .
Atkinson donated the money to build the village
church which was
erected in 1848 and consecrated in 1849.
Two
Methodist chapels were also erected in the mid nineteenth
century, a Wesleyan chapel and a Primitive Methodist chapel,
although only one remains today.
At around
the same time a free school was built to hold sixty girls and
infants.
The
original school is now the Village Hall.
In 1923,
the estate was sold by auction by the then owner Roger
Charlton-Parr .Many of the
plots seem to have been bought by their sitting tenants with the
majority being acquired by Major Ernest Johnson who had rented
the house and much of the land.
The
population of the village more than doubled in the 1960s when
new housing estates were built. According
to the 1961 census, the population was 474 with 160 households.
In 1971, it
had risen to 1,013 with 350 households.
When I arrived in the village in 1967, there were three
shops. There is now only one village shop/post office.
Lane End Farm was still a working farm in the middle of the
village. Its buildings are now offices. Where the hens
scratched, there are two cottages and the cottages' garages are the
former pigsties. The bull's shed is now part of the doctors'
surgery.
There is a photograph of the Ashton
War Memorial with a list of those
commemorated on it on Carls's Cam:
a collection of pictures of Cheshire for family
history hunters.
Note that there are fourteen men who died in
the Great
War. According to the Census, in 1911 the
entire population of the village was only 421.
National and local information and services can be
found at
Directgov: the official government website for citizens
You can find out about Property Prices, Top
Schools, Crime Figures, Council Performance,
Local Services and other information about the
area by typing in your postcode at UpMyStreet.
Postcodes for Ashton begin CH3 8.
The Audit Commission has a website
Oneplace where you
can find out how well local services are performing in the area.
Just enter a postcode
There is other information at the
Neighbourhood
Statistics site based on the 2001
Census: type in your postcode to obtain
statistics about the local area.
You can report, view or discuss local problems at
Fix My Street
Details of houses for sale
can be found at Rightmove To find out
the prices for which local properties have been sold, go
to Nethouseprices
Other local amenities can be found in Ashton Hayes's
nearest neighbour
Mouldsworth The Goshawk
pub opposite the Railway Station serves meals. There is now a
safe pedestrian pathway between Ashton Hayes and Mouldsworth, Please note that the telephone area code for the Goshawk is
01928 and not 01829,
Other shops, pubs, businesses and services can be
found in the larger neighbouring village of
Kelsall Other services can be found
a little further away in
Tarvin and Tarporley Tarporley Parish Council has its own
website
Find about local health services by typing in
your postcode at the
Find Services in your Community section of the
NHS Choices
website Health and care information is also available on the
West
Cheshire Health and Care Website
Ashton Hayes is in the
Eddisbury Parliamentary Constituency. The Member of Parliament
is Stephen O'Brien. His
website includes
information about the Eddisbury Constituency, and contact
details.
The nearest vet is
M.K. Christian. The Firs,
Dog Lane, Kelsall. (01829 751500)
Ashton Hayes is covered by the Cheshire Police
Western Rural Community Action Team. [website temporarily
unavailable] The local officer is
P.C. Andy Wilson. Beat: Kelsall & Ashton Hayes Phone:
0845 458 6394 - Mickle Trafford. E-mail: mickle.trafford.act@cheshire.pnn.police.uk
. Find out about local crime by entering your postcode
at the Crime
Mapping site
Ashton
Hayes County Primary School. The latest report on the school can be found on
the
Ofsted website. A search by postcode will show
reports on this and other local schools.
The village has a
Playgroup
and a Private Day Nursery,
Ashton House Nursery. The latest reports on both
can be found on the Ofsted website.
Ashton Hayes Golden Club meets at Ashton
Hayes WI Hall. Its social and cultural
activities including outings, talks,
games, slideshows, quizzes, speakers . It
meets Tuesday 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
