Childer Thornton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Childer Thornton | |
|---|---|
 The Halfway House pub on the A41 road | |
  Childer Thornton Location within Cheshire | |
| OS grid reference | SJ368776 |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ELLESMERE PORT |
| Postcode district | CH66 |
| Dialling code | 0151 |
| Police | Cheshire |
| Fire | Cheshire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
Childer Thornton is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, in the unitary authority Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It was once a separate village but has since been incorporated into Ellesmere Port. Childer Thornton is on the A41 trunk road, between Hooton and Little Sutton.
The name Childer Thornton means "children's thorn-tree farm/settlement" and likely derives from the Old English words cild (children), þorn (hawthorn tree) and tūn (a farmstead or settlement).[1]
Although not specifically mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, it constituted a portion of the land owned by St Werburgh's Abbey in Chester.
Thornton-Childer was formerly a township in the parish of Eastham,[2] in the Wirral Hundred, in 1866 Childer Thornton became a separate civil parish. It was administered as part of Wirral Rural District until 1933 when it was transferred to Ellesmere Port Urban District. On 1 April 1950 the parish was abolished and merged with Ellesmere Port.[3][4] The population was 112 in 1801, 319 in 1851 and rising to 685 by 1901.[3] In 1931 the parish had a population of 792.[5] From 1974 to 2009 it was in Ellesmere Port and Neston district.
Geography
Childer Thornton is in the southern part of the Wirral Peninsula, near to the town of Ellesmere Port.
Neighbouring places | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||
Community and Economy
The village has one school, two pubs, a hotel and a garden centre. Childer Thornton is exactly halfway in distance between Birkenhead and Chester and one of the pubs is named 'The Halfway House', which was a stagecoach stop between Chester and New Ferry in the 1770s.[6] Childer Thornton's other pub is 'The White Lion'. The Village Petrol Station is equipped with a charging station for electric vehicles.
