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Cholmondeston is a village (at ) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village lies 5 miles to the north west of Nantwich. Nearby villages include Aston juxta Mondrum, Barbridge, Calveley and Wettenhall. The Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union Canal and the Crewe–Chester railway line run through the civil parish. The area is predominantly rural, with a total population of around 150 in 2001. The name is pronounced "Chumston".〔(Genuki: Cholmondeston ) (accessed 31 March 2010)〕 ==History== A hoard of 26 Roman coins was found in Cholmondeston, suggesting the possibility of Roman settlement in the area. The coins are mainly of the reign of Constantius II, dating from after AD 348.〔Latham, p. 13〕 Cholmondeston appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 as ''Chelmundestone'', meaning "Coelmund's Farm". Before the Norman Conquest, it was held by Wulfeva, described as "a free woman", and afterwards by William Malbank (or Malbedeng), the first Baron of Wich Malbank (Nantwich). Local historian Frank Latham suggests that it is possible that there was a substantial pre-Conquest village, later deserted. The Domesday survey recorded a population of 4.〔Latham, pp. 15, 18〕〔(The Domesday Book Online: Cheshire A–K ) (accessed 31 March 2010)〕 At this time, Cholmondeston fell within the Forest of Mondrem, the southern half of Delamere Forest. The manor maintained an underforester and also paid ''frithmote'' tax, which might have entitled it to certain forest privileges or exempted it from the forest courts.〔Husain, pp. 56–8〕〔Latham, p. 18〕 The area of the modern civil parish fell within the ancient parish of Acton in the Nantwich Hundred; it was served by St Mary's Church, Acton until 1873.〔〔Latham, p. 9〕 Early landowners include the Crewe and Wettenhall families. The township was sold by the Earl of Bridgewater to the Werden family in 1686, and by 1800 it had passed to the Drummond family.〔Latham, p. 22〕 In the 18th century, Methodists were recorded in Cholmondeston, as well as in the adjacent parish of Poole, which John Wesley visited four times between 1751 and 1757. Wesley is believed to have stayed at Gates Farm, just inside the Cholmondeston boundary, and he preached in the farm's kitchen.〔Latham, p. 41〕〔Cheshire Federation of Women's Institutes, p. 185〕 A Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in Cholmondeston in 1833. It was replaced by a later red-brick chapel, built from the Twentieth Century Fund, which opened in 1903. The chapel closed in 1973.〔Latham, p. 73〕 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「Cholmondeston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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