Goostrey
Sign in to saveGoostrey is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is in open countryside, north-east of Crewe and west of Macclesfield. The parish contains the Lovell Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, a UNESCO World Heritage site. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 2,179 in 956 housesholds. It contains 24 listed heritage assets and one scheduled monument (a bowl barrow near Jodrell Bank Farm). The parish also includes the hamlets of Blackden, Blackden Heath and Jodrell Bank.
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Place details
- Locality
- Goostrey
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 2,008
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Goostrey
- UK place.static_image_name
- Goostrey - St Luke's Church - geograph.org.uk - 6325754.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 240px
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Luke's Church
- UK place.civil_parish
- Goostrey
- UK place.population
- 2,179
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.unitary_england
- Cheshire East
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Cheshire
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Congleton
- UK place.post_town
- Crewe
- UK place.postcode_district
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Cheshire East
- Population
- +2179
- Shares border with
- Allostock
- Image
- Goostrey church.jpg
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- pyrithione zinc
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Goostrey is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is in open countryside, north-east of Crewe and west of Macclesfield. The parish contains the Lovell Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, a UNESCO World Heritage site. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 2,179 in 956 housesholds. It contains 24 listed heritage assets and one scheduled monument (a bowl barrow near Jodrell Bank Farm). The parish also includes the hamlets of Blackden, Blackden Heath and Jodrell Bank.
== History == Goostrey may have been a meeting place or even a settlement during the 1st millennium BC, as stone and bronze axe heads and barrows within the parish boundary show the area was inhabited before the Iron Age. Bronze Age barrows have also been found near Twemlow Hall and Terra Nova School on the edge of the parish. The 1,200-year-old yew tree in Goostrey's churchyard suggests that the mound on which the church is built was a focal point for a community during the Dark Ages of the 1st millennium. At that time Cheshire was under the control of the Wreocensæte people of Mercia.