About Wrinehill

 Over the summer the advertising hoardings went up outside the new development in Wrinehill.  It is being advertised as EgertonView.   When this information was posted on this blog, I received an email from the Parish Council Chair  to say this was not the case - it is to be called Tollhouse Court.  There the matter could have ended but he went on to state: ' Unfortunately, the Wrinehillbog (a Freudian  slip?) gives incorrect information about the street name, referring to the name as being Egerton View. The incorrect information is doubly unfortunate as the promulgation of the incorrect name has caused upset in some places, which I have had to deal with: there have been a number of negative observations about the (incorrect) name and a couple of concerns have been registered.' In defence of the blog it spoke only of the name of the development (not the street name (it is not a street) which was the only information available which could be verified an...

  The sound of the tractor at work in the nearby field gathering in the wheat and corn late at night, was reassuring.   All year round we saw and heard the tractors on the roads and down the lanes fetching and carrying.   But then in August/September comes the reward, the harvest. It gave me cause to pause for thought.   At least something useful to sustain life and limb had been produced.   There will be food!   The Law of Nature is that things grow, but if things are to grow well, then effort and hard work are needed.   To produce the wheat and corn, the fields had to be ploughed, seeds sown and cared for, watched over and kept safe from predators.     In some ways, not unlike raising infants and children.     I watched this hard work over the summer, observing the colour changes to the local fields, the growth spurts after rain. And so the fields changed from brown to green to gold and now back again to brown.   But not for ...

I have been a Parish Councillor for Wrinehill for the past year.  Much of this has been learning about the Parish, about Wrinehill, people's views, needs and aspirations.  It has not always been an easy ride and during this year I have witnessed some shocking behaviour.  Whilst it is clear that some things are difficult to change, it would not be impossible with the good will of and support from the many good people of this Parish. The new Parish Council term - although it began in May - will begin in earnest in September.  And I would like to begin by requesting that the Parish Council signs up to the Civility and Respect Pledge.   This is not something I have dreamed up on the spur of the moment.  It is a national initiative begun by the National Association of Local Councils (NALC), to address bad behaviour experienced at the local level within Local Councils, in the first instance, and then embracing other larger active organisations, which operate...

 On Wednesday I took a walk.  Since rain threatened I also took an umbrella. Approaching the bridge on Checkley Lane, predictably it began to rain.  I sheltered under the bridge for a while watching how one of the grids, already full of sand and debris, within a very short time, began to overflow.  Within minutes it was lapping across the Lane to where I stood.  Vehicles passed and since no-one offered me a lift and the puddle had now formed across the road I decided to walk on - in the rain - under my umbrella. By now the rain was bouncing off the road and its direction of flow was clear.  Theories of how the flood along Checkley Lane was formed did not match up with the actual flow of water I was now witnessing.  This came down the hill on the East Cheshire side and under the bridge.  The water should have disappeared into the two grids.  They were full so the water backed up under the bridge and proceeded to find its level further along th...

 I have recently been sent more information on the Medicine House which seems to have had a few past uses. I have been informed that the Medicine House was not 'demolished' as such.  The following information comes form a blog by ROWAN forwarded to me recently who posted about her visit to Goostrey to research her family history and came upon the Medicine House now located at Blackden.  Her version of the story was that the building (built as an apothecary) had fallen into serious disrepair and was about to be demolished (not sure by whom) when it was purchased (thankfully) for £1 and saved by Alan Garner and his wife Griselda, removed piece by piece and rebuilt next to their own home Toad Hall.  The two buildings are now connected by a 'passage'.  ROWAN attended  a 'herb day' there.  She noted that the quatrefoils on the gable end were there to repel witches. It was also noted that in the Spring and after the building had been reconstructed various wi...

The following was sent to me by a Wrinehill resident which I am sharing, because it is an interesting account of Wrinehill's  history and evolution.  I am waiting to receive some photographs of the pub! :  'Wrinehill's charm and history was essentially destroyed by planners/road widening mid 1900s and much history is now lost to most residents (and to NBC planners it would seem). However old pictures show the Lord Nelson pub firmly on the plot near its southern end. It was directly facing vehicles coming from Newcastle. Originally it stood in the top of a 'Y' at a fork in the road. The left fork was what is now the end of New Road and then it turned into Den Lane - which I believe was once the main road from Newcastle and places south to Nantwich (hence the Crown being an old coaching inn). The right fork was the original public main road to Betley and Crewe, it ran behind the plot, along behind the Summer House and was the southern end of what is now Old Road. The ...