Bickley, Cheshire
Bickley is a former civil parish, now in the parish of No Man's Heath and District, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 498,[1] reducing slightly to 481 at the 2011 census.[2] The parish included the villages of Bickley Town and Bickley Moss. The civil parish was abolished in 2015 to form No Man's Heath and District.[3]
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.jpg.webp) St. Wenefrede's Church, Bickley | |
  Bickley Location within Cheshire | |
| Population | 481 (2011 Census) |
| OS grid reference | SJ5348 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MALPAS |
| Postcode district | SY14 |
| Dialling code | 01948 |
| Police | Cheshire |
| Fire | Cheshire |
| Ambulance | North West |
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The name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and relates to bees.[4]
The parish church is St Wenefrede's, a grade-II-listed sandstone building designed by John Douglas and Daniel Porter Fordham.[5]
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- "2001 Census: Bickley CP". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
- "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 29 May 2011.
- "BICKLEY". GENUKI. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- Phillips ADM, Phillips CB (eds). A New Historical Atlas of Cheshire p. 24, (Cheshire County Council & Cheshire Community Council Publications Trust; 2002)
- Historic England. "Church of St Wenefrede, Bickley (1130617)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
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