Salesbrook is a small settlement in the parish of Newhall

Newhall, Cheshire

Newhall is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village lies 3½ miles to the west of Audlem and 5 miles to the south west of Nantwich...

, near the village of Aston, in the ceremonial county of and 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...

 in England

England

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. Nearby settlements include Aston by Wrenbury

Aston by Wrenbury

Aston is a village in the civil parish of Newhall in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.The village should not be confused with several other villages named Aston in Cheshire, which include Aston...

, Newhall, Barnett Brook

Barnett Brook

Barnett Brook is a hamlet in the Newhall civil parish and the Cheshire East area of Cheshire, England....

 and Dod's Green

Dod's Green

Dod's Green is a small hamlet near the village of Newhall in Cheshire. Nearby settlements include Salesbrook....

.

Description

The settlement is centred around the Salesbrook brook, which Salesbrook Lane crosses at Salesbrook Bridge. The village consists of two main properties: Salesbrook Manor, and the bungalow, occupied by the Parker family who have lived on the property for at many hundreds of years. There is a row of old council house

Council house

A council house, otherwise known as a local authority house, is a form of public or social housing. The term is used primarily in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Council houses were built and operated by local councils to supply uncrowded, well-built homes on secure tenancies at...

s near the main road. Most of the surrounding fields are owned by the Shore family, who live at Salesbrook Farm. The surrounding land is flat (although it begins to slope gently upwards towards Newhall) and mostly used for arable farming. There is a small woodland nearby named Courts Gorse. The Population, excluding Salesbrook Farm, was estimated at 16 in 2010.

Governance

The hamlet is served locally by Newhall Parish council which meets at Aston, local representatives have included Jack Parker from Salesbrook. The council was served by the Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council until its abolition in 2009, since then it has been under the jurisdiction of Cheshire east Council. It is represented at westminster by Stephen O'Brien and is part of the Eddisbury

Eddisbury

Eddisbury could be*the Eddisbury in Cheshire, England*the ancient Eddisbury in Cheshire*Eddisbury hill fort in Cheshire*Baron Eddisbury, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom...

 Constituency.

History

The settlement was part of the Combermere

Combermere Abbey

Combermere Abbey is a former monastery in Combermere Park, between Nantwich and Whitchurch in Cheshire, England, near the border with Shropshire.-Topomony:...

estate until the early 20th century when it was sold off to pay off the estate's mounting debts. Until the 1980s the surrounding land was owned by the Plant family.