Winwick, Cheshire

Winwick
Winwick is located in Cheshire
Winwick
Winwick
Location within Cheshire
Population4,899 (2021 census)
OS grid referenceSJ603928
Civil parish
  • Winwick
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWarrington
Postcode districtWA2
Dialling code01925
PoliceCheshire
FireCheshire
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament
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UK
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Cheshire
53°25′49″N 2°35′50″W / 53.4303°N 2.5972°W / 53.4303; -2.5972

Winwick is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Located within the historic boundaries of Lancashire, it is situated about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Warrington town centre, nearby is junction 22 of the M6 motorway and junction 9 of the M62. Winwick borders Newton-le-Willows and Burtonwood. At the 2021 census, the village had a population of 2,060, while the wider civil parish had a population of 4,899.

Winwick Hospital, a large Victorian mental asylum, closed down in 1997. A smaller hospital called Hollins Park is currently situated on the site. Hollins Park Hospital is also the headquarters for North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

History

An oilseed rape field in Winwick

King Oswald of Northumbria is believed to have been killed in the Winwick area and the parish church, dedicated to him, was reputedly located with guidance from the "Winwick Pig", a carving of which can still be seen on the church wall. Richard Sherlock was the incumbent at Winwick for some thirty years in the seventeenth century, and Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, spent his early years in the care of Sherlock at Winwick.

At the time of the Domesday Survey (1086), the village itself was also known as St Oswalds. This was little more than four hundred years after the death of Oswald. In the church, the remains of a 7th-century stone cross with an engraving of the reputed demise of Oswald can be seen.[citation needed]

Winwick was the site of the battle of Winwick in the second English Civil War on 19 August 1648, where Oliver Cromwell defeated a mainly Scottish Royalist army.

The captain of the RMS Titanic, Edward Smith, married Sarah Eleanor Pennington on 13 January 1887 at St Oswald's Church.[citation needed]

In the 1934 Winwick rail crash 11 people were killed and 19 people were injured. Another accident occurred in 1967, but there were no fatalities or serious injuries.

Demographics

At the 2021 census, the civil parish had a population of 4,899 people in 2,006 households. The Office for National Statistics also defines a built-up area for Winwich, which excludes outlying parts of the parish, including areas south of the M62 on the periphery of the Warrington built-up area; this had a population of 2,060 in 2021.

Census population of Winwick parish
Census Population Female Male Households Source
2001 4,366 2,261 2,105 1,744
2011 4,968 2,539 2,429 1,975
2021 4,899 2,548 2,351 2,006

Sport

Winwick Athletic F.C. is a junior football club. Initially an FA Charter Standard Development Club from 2006, it won the FA Charter Standard National Club of the Year Award in 2009. In January 2013, Winwick Athletic became an FA Charter Standard Community Club, which is the highest level possible for an FA Grassroots Football Club, and, as of 2014, was a Nike Partner Club.

Notable people

Caricature of "The Head" (J.J.Hornby) in Vanity Fair, 1901

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Winwick Hospital Remembered... History". Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
  2. ↑ "Hollins Park Hospital". North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  3. ↑ "The Battle of Winwick Pass"
  4. ↑ "Built Up Areas (December 2022) Boundaries GB BGG". geoportal.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2026.
  5. ↑ "Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, England and Wales: Census 2021 - Office for National Statistics". www.ons.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2026.
  6. ↑ "Key Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Tables KS001 (Usual resident population) and KS016 (Household spaces and accommodation type). Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  7. ↑ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Winwick Parish (E04000335)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  8. ↑ "Parish Profiles". Office for National Statistics. GSS E04013420 (Winwick parish) in tables PP001 (households) and PP002 (sex). Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  9. ↑ "Winwick Athletic". Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  10. ↑ O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Hornby, Phipps" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. p. 542.
  11. ↑ Bedwell, C.E.A. (1912). "Jones, Henry Cadman" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. pp. 380–381.
  12. ↑ "Hornby, Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 708.
  13. ↑ Cust, Lionel (1912). "Hornby, James John" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. pp. 303–304.