Everything about Audlem totally explained
Audlem is a large
village and
civil parish located in the
Borough of Crewe and Nantwich,
Cheshire in the north west of
England, approximately 11 km (7 miles) south of
Nantwich. Close to the border with the neighbouring county of
Shropshire, the village is eight miles east of
Whitchurch and seven miles north of
Market Drayton. According to the 2001 census, the population of the entire civil parish was 1,790.
It is situated on the
Shropshire Union Canal which has a run of 15 locks, designed by
Thomas Telford, to raise the canal from the
Cheshire Plain to the 93 feet higher
Shropshire Plain. The
River Weaver passes west of the village.
Audlem railway station closed along with the local railway line in the
1960s.
Audlem was mentioned in the
Domesday Book as
Aldelime, and
Edward I granted it a market charter in 1295.
In 2005 it was voted Cheshire's '
Village of the Year' and the North of England 'Village of the Year' also the 'Most Vibrant Village in Cheshire'. After also winning the county's 'Building Community Life' award, Audlem went on to win England's 'Building Community Life' award.
Audlem has clubs for
tennis,
badminton,
football,
cricket,
golf,
pigeon racing (or
pigeon-fancying),
caravanning and
bowls.
Cyclists meet informally at The Old Priest-House Cafe.
Moss Hall is an
Elizabethan timber-framed hall from 1616 which is from Audlem village centre.
Vote to become part of Wales controversy
In
2008 63% of the people of the village who took part in an online community website poll voted to become part of
Wales(External Link
). According to the reports in local newspapers which were repeated by
ITV Wales many of the people living in the village wish to return to the land of their fathers mainly because of better local funding arrangements provided since
Welsh devolution and also because many of the people living in the village assert they're culturally
Welsh with some able to speak the language:
"I know of at least four Welsh-speakers in Audlem - that's probably more than Newport and Cardiff can muster between them. So Audlem is already ahead in the bilingual stakes."
Another said:
"We're so close to Wales, we get more response from Wales, we get a lot of tourists from Wales and we feel we should be part of Wales. My husband is really keen because he can wear his Grand Slam T-shirt and feel safe."(External Link)
It was reported on the community website that the local parish council was "considering" making an application to administratively join Wales.
Historically, Audlem hasn't been considered a part of Wales since about the middle of the 7th Century when the Kingdom of Powys lost the area to the Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria.
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