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Barthomley is a village and ancient parish, and is now a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 202.〔(Official 2001 Census Figures. ) Neighbourhood Statistics website. Retrieval Date: 26 August 2007.〕 The village is situated near junction 16 of the M6 motorway and by the border with Staffordshire. It is about three miles south-west of Alsager. The hamlet of Radway Green, location of a Royal Ordnance Factory, is within the parish, north-east of the village of Barthomley and just outside Alsager. There was a railway station in Radway Green, on the Crewe to Derby Line, as well as a station reserved for the factory at Millway. However, both of these are now closed. Radway Green and Barthomley station closed to goods traffic on 7 June 1964, followed by its closure to passengers on 7 November 1966.〔Speake, R. (Ed.) (1995). page 183–189.〕 ==History== Barthomley was an ancient parish within Cheshire. It contained five townships: Alsager, Balterley, Barthomley itself, Crewe, and Haslington.〔Youngs (1991). page 8,〕 Of these, Balterley township and (now) civil parish was and is entirely in the neighbouring county of Staffordshire, and Crewe was later renamed Crewe Green to avoid confusion with the neighbouring unparished borough and railway town.〔(Genuki: Crewe (Crewe Green) - name change. ) Retrieval Date: 26 August 2007.〕 All five townships were made separate civil parishes in 1866.〔 The Cheshire part of the ancient parish lay within Nantwich Hundred, Nantwich Poor Law Union, and Nantwich Rural Sanitary District,〔 whilst the Staffordshire part lay in North Pirehill hundred, Newcastle under Lyme Poor Law Union and Rural Sanitary District.〔Youngs (1991). page 402.〕 Later on, the modern civil parish (now entirely in Cheshire) was part of Nantwich Rural District.〔 During the English Civil War St Bertoline's Church was the location of a notorious massacre of at least 12 pro-Parliamentarian prisoners by Royalist troops. The fantasy novel ''Red Shift,'' by Alan Garner, is largely concerned with the Barthomley massacre.〔Alan Garner ''Red Shift'' William Collins and Son 1973〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barthomley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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