Editing Great Budworth (section)

==History==
The early history of Great Budworth is documented in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, which mentions a priest at Great Budworth.<ref name=ODOgb>[https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ6677/great-budworth/ Open Domesday Online: (Great) Budworth], accessed February 2019.</ref> In 1130, [[St Mary and All Saints' Church, Great Budworth|St Mary and All Saints Church]] was given to the [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[Canon (priest)|canon]] of [[Norton Priory]]{{sfn|Greene|2004|p=67}} by William FitzNigel, [[Constable]] of Chester and [[Barony of Halton|Baron of Halton]].

The lord of the manor during the reign of [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] was Geoffrey de Dutton. He donated to [[Norton Priory]] a third of his land to endow masses for his soul.<ref name="Society1897">{{cite book |author=Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society |title=Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qxy-DMdn3awC&pg=PA95 |access-date=16 July 2011 |year=1897 |page=95}}</ref> After the [[dissolution of the monasteries]], [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII]] granted the estate to John Grimsditch. It was afterwards divided into several parcels.<ref name="Lysons1810"/>

There may have been a school in Great Budworth as early as 1563, but certainly one existed by 1578.<ref name="CoxHopkins1975">{{cite book |last1=Cox |first1=Marjorie |last2=Hopkins |first2=L. A. |title=A history of Sir John Deane's Grammar School, Northwich, 1557–1908 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bn67AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA52 |access-date=11 July 2011 |year=1975 |publisher=Manchester University Press ND |isbn=978-0-7190-1282-2 |page=52}}</ref> For centuries, the village was owned by the head of Arley Hall who would collect rent from the villagers.<ref name="Lambert1996"/> [[Rowland Egerton-Warburton]] of Arley Hall paid for restorations and improvements to the church in the 1850s.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.greatbudworthchurch.org/A%20brief%20history.htm|title=A Brief History of Great Budworth Church|access-date=9 September 2007|last=Steele|first=Robert J.|date=May 2003|publisher=St Mary's and All Saints Church|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823195832/http://www.greatbudworthchurch.org/A%20brief%20history.htm|archive-date=23 August 2007}}</ref> Egerton-Warburton also undertook a "campaign to render it (the village) [[picturesque]] in [[Victorian era|Victorian]] eyes".<ref>Hubbard, p. 92</ref> To this end he commissioned architects including [[William Eden Nesfield|William Nesfield]] and [[John Douglas (English architect)|John Douglas]] to work on buildings in the village.<ref>Hubbard, pp. 79–80</ref> Douglas remodelled the [[George and Dragon, Great Budworth|George and Dragon inn]] in 1875,<ref>Hubbard, pp. 92–93, 246</ref> and restored some of the cottages.<ref>Hubbard, pp. 240, 242, 278</ref>

A running pump was the only source of drinking water for the whole community until 1934 when a piped supply was first connected. Until 1948, Great Budworth was part of the Arley Hall estate.<ref name="Boast">{{cite web|url=http://www.cc-publishing.co.uk/Archives/gbudworth.html|title=History on your doorstep – Great Budworth|last=Boast|first=Howard |publisher=Cheshire Magazine|access-date=16 July 2011}}</ref>