Tarporley
Tarporley is a large village and civil parish in Cheshire, England. It is bypassed by the A49 and A51 roads, and holds a regular country market on the first Saturday of each month. Tarporley is near the site of a prehistoric settlement. It is listed in the Domesday Book as “Toepelei”, which has been translated as meaning “a pear wood near a hill”. For this reason, Tarporley Church of England Primary School has a pear tree for its emblem. In 1066,... Show more the settlement was owned by Wulfgeat of Madeley and was worth one pound. Twenty years later, under the ownership of Gilbert the Hunter, Tarporley's value had halved, to ten shillings. At the 2001 Census, the population was 2,634, falling slightly to 2,614 at the 2011 Census. Tarporley civil parish also contains the village of Rhuddall Heath. Since 2009 it forms part of the unitary authority district of Cheshire West and Chester. Tarporley High Street...