Audlem is a large village

Village

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 and civil parish located in the unitary authority of Cheshire East

Cheshire East

Cheshire East is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.The borough was established in April 2009 as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England, by virtue of an order under the Local Government and Public Involvement in...

 and the ceremonial county of Cheshire

Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...

 in the north west of England, approximately 11 km (6.8 mi) south of Nantwich

Nantwich

Nantwich is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The town gives its name to the parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich...

. Close to the border with the neighbouring county of Shropshire

Shropshire

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, the village is eight miles (13 km) east of Whitchurch

Whitchurch, Shropshire

Whitchurch is a market town in Shropshire, England on the border between England and Wales. It is the oldest continuously inhabited town in Shropshire. According to the 2001 Census, the population of the town is 8,673, with a more recent estimate putting the population of the town at 8,934...

 and seven miles (11 km) north of Market Drayton

Market Drayton

Market Drayton is a small market town in north Shropshire, England. It is on the River Tern, between Shrewsbury and Stoke-on-Trent, and was formerly known as "Drayton in Hales" and earlier simply as "Drayton" ....

. According to the 2001 census, the population of the entire civil parish was 1,790.

It is situated on the Shropshire Union Canal

Shropshire Union Canal

The Shropshire Union Canal is a navigable canal in England; the Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches of the Shropshire Union system and lie partially in Wales....

 which has a run of 15 locks, designed by Thomas Telford

Thomas Telford

Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.-Early career:...

, to raise the canal from the Cheshire Plain

Cheshire Plain

The Cheshire Plain is a relatively flat expanse of lowland situated almost entirely within the county of Cheshire in northwest England. It is bounded by the hills of North Wales to the west, and the Peak District of Derbyshire and North Staffordshire to the east and southeast...

 to the 93 feet (28.3 m) higher Shropshire Plain. The River Weaver

River Weaver

The River Weaver is a river, navigable in its lower reaches, running in a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, northern England. Improvements to the river to make it navigable were authorised in 1720 and the work, which included eleven locks, was completed in 1732...

 passes west of the village. Audlem railway station

Audlem railway station

Audlem railway station was a station on the former Great Western Railway between Market Drayton and Nantwich, opened in 1863.It served the village of Audlem in Cheshire, England until closure in 1963...

 closed along with the local railway line in the 1960s.

Audlem was mentioned in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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 as Aldelime, and Edward I

Edward I of England

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 granted it a market charter in 1295.

In 2005 it was voted Cheshire's 'Village of the Year

Calor Village of the Year

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' 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

Tennis

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, badminton

Badminton

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, football, cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

, golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, pigeon racing

Pigeon racing

Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained racing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance...

 (or pigeon-fancying), caravanning and bowls

Bowls

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. Cyclists meet informally at The Old Priest-House Cafe.

Moss Hall

Moss Hall, Audlem

Moss Hall, Audlem, is a manor house to the northwest of Audlem, Cheshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. Moss Hall is situated to the west of Audlem, overlooking the Shropshire Union Canal....

 is an Elizabethan

Elizabethan era

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 timber-framed

Timber framing

Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...

hall from 1616 which is 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) from Audlem village centre.

External links

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