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Sound is a hamlet (at ) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The hamlet is located to the south west of Nantwich. The parish also includes the small settlements of Newtown and Sound Heath.〔(Genuki: Sound ) (accessed 6 April 2010)〕 Nearby villages include Aston, Ravensmoor and Wrenbury. The River Weaver runs along the southern boundary and the Welsh Marches railway line crosses the parish. There is a small Site of Special Scientific Interest and Local Nature Reserve named Sound Heath, which forms an important habitat for freshwater invertebrates and breeding birds. The area is predominantly rural, with a total population of a little over 200. ==History== Sound, or Soond, is a name of Saxon origin which means a sandy place.〔Latham, p. 16〕 Sound is not mentioned in the Domesday survey.〔Latham, p. 18〕 In 1200–1300, there is evidence for a hamlet named Fouleshurst, which is thought to have been located near Fouleshurst (now Fullhurst) Hall on Sound Lane, in the north of the modern civil parish. However, no traces have yet been uncovered of this settlement.〔Latham, p. 19〕 Records exist of the township of Sound itself from 1310.〔Latham, pp. 20–21〕 The area of the modern civil parish was divided between two administrative units in the Nantwich Hundred: part fell within Wrenbury chapelry, which was served by St Margaret's Church, Wrenbury, and part within the ancient parish of Acton, which was served by St Mary's Church, Acton.〔〔Latham, p. 9〕 The earliest landowners were the Sound family, but the manor had passed to the Chetwode family by the reign of Edward IV (1461–1483) and by 1800, it was owned by the Cholmondeleys.〔Latham, p. 23〕 In April 1643, during the Civil War, Sound was one of several townships raided by Royalist forces. The diarist Edward Burghall wrote: In 1831 there was a hopyard north of Sound Hall, which had a malt kiln. Two beerhouse keepers were recorded in Sound in 1850, and one of the cottages adjacent to Sound Hall is believed to have been an alehouse.〔Lamberton & Gray, pp. 64, 75–6〕 The Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway was approved in 1853. Construction employed engineers Joseph Locke and John Edward Errington and contractor Thomas Brassey, and the line opened on 1 September 1858. It passed through Sound with no station.〔Latham, p. 45〕〔(Discovering Shropshire's History: Whitchurch Town Trail: Station Road ) (accessed 6 April 2010)〕 Broomhall Church, a Methodist chapel, was built in Newtown in 1838 by Joseph Cartlidge.〔〔Latham, p. 71〕 A Primitive Methodist Chapel was constructed in 1875 at Sound Heath, and a Sunday School was added in the late 1930s. This chapel closed in 1973, when the congregation united with that of Broomhall Church, which was renamed Broomhall and Sound Church.〔Latham, pp. 71–3〕 Sound School (on the boundary with Broomhall) opened in 1876, with 58 pupils in its first year.〔Latham, p. 91〕 During the Second World War, the school served as an emergency rest centre for evacuees.〔Latham, p. 56〕 It was expanded with mobile classrooms in the late 20th century.〔 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「Sound, Cheshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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