Penketh
Sign in to savePenketh is a civil parish and suburb of Warrington in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is located about west of Warrington town centre. It has a population of 8,699. It is in the historic county of Lancashire. The emblem/badge of Penketh is three kingfishers.
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- Locality
- Cuerdley Cross
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Penketh
- UK place.static_image_name
- The Ferry Tavern - Sankey Canal - geograph.org.uk - 529050.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Ferry Tavern public house, Penketh
- UK place.map_type
- Cheshire
- UK place.population
- 8,699
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Penketh
- UK place.unitary_england
- Warrington
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Cheshire
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Warrington South
- UK place.post_town
- Warrington
- UK place.postcode_district
- WA5
- UK place.postcode_area
- WA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01925
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SJ595891
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Governance
- Industry
- Churches
- Schools
- Transport
- Business Park
- Demographics
- Race and gender
- Housing demographics
- See also
- References
- External links
Penketh is a civil parish and suburb of Warrington in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is located about west of Warrington town centre. It has a population of 8,699. It is in the historic county of Lancashire. The emblem/badge of Penketh is three kingfishers.
==Toponymy== The name Penketh is first attested in 1243 as Penket and similar forms. The name is derived from two Common Brittonic words: *penno- (head) and *kēto- (trees), corresponding to modern Welsh (the place-name Pencoed is found widely in Wales). Thus the name once meant "end of the wood", suggesting that the parish was at one time on the outskirts of a forest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Penketh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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