Coordinates: 53°13'24?N 2°57'34?W? / ?53.2234, -2.9593
Saughall is a civil parish and village in Chester District, Cheshire, England. It is situated approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north west of Chester and close to the Welsh border.[2]
At the 2001 census, there were 3,084 residents in the village[1] and a total of 3,585 people living in the ward of Saughall, with 48.5% male and 51.5% female.[3]
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The Domesday Book of 1086 mentions the village as Salhale,[4] with a total population of about 85.[5]
The village previously consisted of two separate townships in the parish of Shotwick, Wirral Hundred. Great Saughall had a population of 147 in 1801, 493 in 1851 and 703 in 1901.[6] Little Saughall had a population of 48 in 1801, 69 in 1851 and 137 in 1901.[7] The present civil parish was created in 1948 by uniting both settlements. In 1951, the population of Saughall was 1,518.[8]
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The village has two local schools: The Ridings Community Infant School and The Thomas Wedge Church of England Junior School.
Saughall Windmill is more commonly known as Gibbet Mill and is now a private residence. Situated some distance outside the village, this name is likely derived from some time during the eighteenth century. It was the location of the murder of a farm labourer by two fellow workers after a disagreement over earnings in the vicinity of the mill. After their trial and execution, their bodies were hung in chains, or "gibbeted" from a nearby ash tree, as a warning to other criminals.[9]
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