Ashton Hayes

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[edit] Location

Ashton Hayes is not in Cornwall, Devon, Herefordshire or on the Clyde near Glasgow. There are Ashtons in Northamptonshire, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire as well as Ashton-in-Makerfield and Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester. None of them is this Ashton, which changed it's name in 2004 to avoid confusion.

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In Riseton hundred Richard de Vernon holds Ashton. Toret held it and he was a free man. There are four hides that pay geld. There is land for five ploughs. In the demesne there is one plough and two slaves and two villeins and two radmen and three bordars with two ploughs. There is a wood half a league long and one acre wide. In the time of King Edward it was worth sixteen shillings, now it is worth twenty shillings. He found it waste.

-Domesday Book

ASHTON, a township, in the parish of Tarvin, union of Great Boughton, Second division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 7½ miles (E. N. E.) from Chester; containing 401 inhabitants. The manor was held in the reign of Edward I. by the Mainwaring family, from whom it descended by female heirs to the Veres and Trussells: about 1580 it was sold by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford, to Sir Christopher Hatton, from whom it passed by successive sales to various owners. The property of Ashton-Hayes was purchased in 1843 from Booth Grey, Esq., by William Atkinson, Esq., of Manchester, who has much improved the mansion and grounds, and introduced the latest system of agriculture.

-Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

To become carbon neutral we have to assess our current emissions and then take steps to reduce them through personal energy saving and lifestyle considerations. We can’t prevent all our emissions but those we do produce can be offset through local renewable energy schemes or forestry projects. Eliminating our carbon footprint will take time but we will help everyone who is willing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through simple, and sometimes cost-saving measures

-Project Coordinator Garry Charnock.

There has been an enthusiastic response from the whole community - We want to show our children, grandchildren and future generations that we have done our best to stop Ashton Hayes contributing to global warming.

-Parish Council leader Naomi Deynem.