Editing Gawsworth

{{Short description|Village in Cheshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
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|official_name=            Gawsworth
|population=               1,705               
|population_ref=           (2011)
|civil_parish=             Gawsworth
|unitary_england=          [[Cheshire East]]
|lieutenancy_england=      [[Cheshire]]
|region=                   North West England
|country=                  England
|constituency_westminster= [[Macclesfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Macclesfield]]
|post_town=                MACCLESFIELD
|postcode_district=        SK11
|postcode_area=            SK
|dial_code=                01625
|os_grid_reference=        SJ888688
|static_image_name=        St James' Church, Gawsworth.jpg
|static_image_caption=     St. James' Church, Gawsworth
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[[Image:Gawsworthlogo.png|200px|right|thumb|Gawsworth Village Logo]]

'''Gawsworth''' {{IPAc-en|'|g|ɔ:|z|w|ə|θ|}} is a [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] and village in the unitary authority of [[Cheshire East]] and the ceremonial county of [[Cheshire]], England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,705.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123687&c=Gawsworth&d=16&e=62&g=6408354&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1457882600781&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=13 March 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref> It is one of the eight ancient parishes of [[Macclesfield (hundred)|Macclesfield Hundred]]. Twenty acres of the civil parish were transferred to Macclesfield civil parish in 1936.<ref>[https://archive.today/20121224060223/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10045083 Vision of Britain]</ref>

The country houses [[Gawsworth Old Hall]], [[Gawsworth New Hall]] and [[Gawsworth Old Rectory]] are in the village. The authors of the Cheshire volume of the ''[[Pevsner Architectural Guides|Buildings of England]]'' series state:<ref>{{Citation | last = Hartwell | first = Claire |last2 = Hyde | first2 = Matthew |last3 = Hubbard | first3 = Edward | author3-link = Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) | last4 =Pevsner | first4 =Nikolaus | author4-link =Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title = Cheshire | publisher =[[Yale University Press]]| year =2011| orig-year=1971| location =New Haven and London| page = 366| isbn =978-0-300-17043-6 }}</ref> <blockquote>There is nothing in Cheshire to compare with the loveliness of Gawsworth: three great houses and a distinguished church set around a descending string of pools, all within an enigmatic large-scale formal landscape.</blockquote>

A wood near the village known as Maggotty Wood is the burial place of the eighteenth-century dramatist [[Samuel Johnson (dramatist)|Samuel "Maggotty" Johnson]]. His ghost is reputed to haunt the wood.<ref>{{cite web |last=Coates |first=Neil |title=Gawsworth, Cheshire - North West - Countryfile.com |url=http://www.countryfile.com/days-out/gawsworth-cheshire-0 |publisher=[[BBC]] [[Countryfile]] Magazine |date=23 November 2011 |access-date=24 August 2014 }}</ref>

==Governance==
Gawsworth Parish Council consists of 9 elected Councillors in two wards, Gawsworth Village and Gawsworth Moss. It is within the Gawsworth Ward of [[Cheshire East Council]]. In the UK Parliament it is represented by [[Tim Roca]] MP for the [[Macclesfield]] constituency.

==See also==
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*[[Listed buildings in Gawsworth]]
*[[St James' Church, Gawsworth]]
*[[Warren, Cheshire]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Richards, Raymond (1957) ''The Manor of Gawsworth, Cheshire''. (Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society; Vol. 5, pp.&nbsp;1–356.) London: Ancient Monuments Society

==External links==
{{Commons category|Gawsworth}}
* [https://Www.gawsworthpc.org.uk]

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