Audlem (/ʊərdləm/ ORD-ləm) is a village and civil parish located in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in North West England, approximately 7 mi (11 km) south of Nantwich. Close to the border with the neighbouring county of Shropshire, the village is eight miles (13 km) east of Whitchurch and seven miles (11 km) north of Market Drayton. According to the 2001 census, the population of the entire civil parish was 1,790,[1] increasing to 1,991 at the 2011 Census.[2]
Audlem | |
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Audlem Location within Cheshire | |
Population | 1,991 (2011 Census) |
OS grid reference | SJ660436 |
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Unitary authority | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | CREWE |
Postcode district | CW3 |
Dialling code | 01270 |
Police | Cheshire |
Fire | Cheshire |
Ambulance | North West |
UK Parliament | |
Audlem was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Aldelime, and Edward I granted it a market charter in 1295.[3]
Audlem is on the Shropshire Union Canal, which has a flight of 15 locks, designed by Thomas Telford, to raise the canal 93 feet (28 m) from the Cheshire Plain to the Shropshire Plain. The River Weaver passes west of the village. Audlem railway station closed along with the local railway line in the 1960s.
Moss Hall is an Elizabethan timber-framed hall from 1616 0.5 miles (1 km) from Audlem village centre.
Audlem has clubs for tennis, badminton, football, cricket, golf, pigeon racing (or pigeon-fancying), caravanning, bell ringing and bowls. Cyclists meet informally at the Old Priest-House Cafe. Audlem has a website, AudlemOnline.[4] Saint James' Primary School is the only school in the village.