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Warburton is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. [1] Historically in Cheshire, it lies on the south bank of the River Mersey. The village remains predominantly rural. Altrincham is the nearest town. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 286. [2]
Warburton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It contains 22 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Trafford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, ... The lowest point in Trafford, near Warburton, is 36 feet (11 ... the parish councils are involved in ...
Werburgh, an Anglo-Saxon saint who has given her name to Warburgtune, as Warburton was called in the Domesday survey (1086), was the daughter of Wulfhere, the first Christian king of Mercia. She died around AD 700 as Abbess of Ely, with the care of several nunneries. Her relics were moved to the abbey of St Peter and St Paul in Chester, which ...
Church House was built as parish rooms and a caretaker's house in 1889. [1] Hubbard states that it was built for Rowland Egerton-Warburton and that its design is attributed to the Chester architect John Douglas. [2] However the authors of the Buildings of England series refer to the "Douglas motifs" and give a firm attribution to him. [3]
A civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England. There are 14 civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester , most of the county being unparished ; Bury , Rochdale , Salford and Stockport are completely unparished.
The council styles itself Trafford Council rather than its full formal name of Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. [6] [7] From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater Manchester County Council. The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Greater ...
It was created by the Local Government Act 1972, and consists of the metropolitan boroughs of Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan and the cities of Manchester and Salford. [1] [2] This is a complete list of the Grade I listed churches in the metropolitan county as recorded in the National Heritage List for England.