Christleton

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[edit] Location

[edit] Data

[edit] History

According to Hemingway, it was during abbacy of Simon at the cathedral that:

A cistern twenty feet square was made at Christleton and another formed within the cloisters and a communication established by pipes which a patent from Edward I enabled the monks to carry through all intervening lands permitting even the city walls to be taken clown for the purpose It is observable that a forester of Delamere Randle de Merton whose estate was trespassed on in consequence of this order ventured on cutting off the pipes which the abbots had laid for which he was ordered to make reparation by a royal mandate (13 Edward I)

The site of the well at Christleton was long known as "The abbot's well" and lies some short distance from what is now the the Abbot's Well Hotel.

[edit] Local facilities

A large comprehensive high school, called Christleton High School, and a smaller, but widely recognised primary school. The village's amenities include a local gym and swimming pool, a post office, Women's institute (now used for alternative means) and local pub called the Ring O Bells. It has been the best kept village in Cheshire in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Other pubs include the Cheshire Cat.