Ledsham, Cheshire
village and civil parish in Cheshire, UK
Ledsham is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The civil parish includes parts of the hamlets of Badger's Rake and Two Mills.
It is on the Wirral Peninsula, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Chester and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Ellesmere Port.
At the 2011 Census, the village had a population of 181.
History
In 1085, Ledsham was recorded in the Domesday Book as Levetesham. The landowner was Walter de Vernon. The land passed by will from the Massey family to Sir Thomas Stanley of Hooton in 1715.
Formerly a township in Neston parish of the Wirral Hundred, it became a civil parish in 1866. The population was recorded at 56 in 1801, 94 in 1851, 82 in 1901, 116 in 1951 and 88 in 2001.
The village was served by Ledsham railway station on the former Chester and Birkenhead Railway.
“Ledsham, Cheshire” enters the record as village and civil parish in Cheshire, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ledsham, Cheshire and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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