Gawsworth

Gawsworth
St. James' Church, Gawsworth
Gawsworth  Gawsworth shown within Cheshire
OS grid reference	SJ888688
Civil parish	Gawsworth
Unitary authority	Cheshire East
Ceremonial county	Cheshire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MACCLESFIELD
Postcode district	SK11
Dialling code	01625
Police	Cheshire
Fire	Cheshire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Macclesfield
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Gawsworth is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is one of the eight ancient parishes of Macclesfield Hundred. Twenty acres of the civil parish were transferred to Macclesfield civil parish in 1936

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 Buildings of England series state:

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.

A wood near the village known as Maggotty Wood is the burial place of the eighteenth-century dramatist Samuel "Maggotty" Johnson. His ghost is reputed to haunt the wood.

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 and represented by David Rutley MP.

See also

• Listed buildings in Gawsworth
• St James' Church, Gawsworth

Further reading

• Richards, Raymond (1957) The Manor of Gawsworth, Cheshire. (Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society; Vol. 5, pp. 1-356.) London: Ancient Monuments Society

External links

• Gawsworth Parish Council