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Wrenbury is a village in the civil parish of Wrenbury cum Frith, the unitary authority of Cheshire East, and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies on the River Weaver, around 8.5 miles south-west of Crewe. The civil parish of Wrenbury cum Frith covers the village of Wrenbury and the small settlements of Gaunton's Bank, Pinsley Green, Porter's Hill, Smeaton Wood, Wrenbury Heath and Wrenburywood. It has a total population of around 1,100. ==History== The village is listed in the Domesday book as ''Wareneberie'',〔(The Domesday Book Online: Cheshire L–Z ) (accessed 11 August 2007)〕 and became Wrennebury in 1230. The name is said to mean "old forest inhabited by wrens".〔(Cheshire Life feature (2002) )〕 Wrenbury formed part of the extensive lands of William Malbank (also William Malbedeng), who owned much of the Nantwich hundred.〔 As a chapel attached to St Mary's Church, Acton, Wrenbury was included in the lands donated to the Cistercian Combermere Abbey in around 1180, shortly after the abbey's 1133 foundation by Hugh Malbank, second Baron of Nantwich.〔('Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Combermere', in ''A History of the County of Chester'', Vol. 3, pp. 150–156, (1980) ) (accessed 11 August 2007)〕 In 1539, after the Dissolution, the land was granted to George Cotton,〔 and the Cotton family remained important local landowners for centuries.〔(Thornber C. Cheshire Antiquities: Wrenbury ) (accessed 11 August 2007)〕 A free school by the church was endowed by Ralph Buckley in 1605.〔St Margaret's Churchyard plaque〕 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「Wrenbury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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