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Great Budworth

A charming small village nowadays, ‘Great’ Budworth was accorded that designation at a time when it was the largest ecclesiastical parish in all Cheshire, the administrative centre for some 35 individual communities. The imposing church on the hill, built in the 14th and 15th centuries, reflects the village’s importance during those years. St Mary & All Saints attracts many visitors to its host of quaint carvings and odd faces that peer out at unexpected corners: some with staring eyes, others with their tongues poking out. There’s a man near the pulpit who appears to be drowsing through some interminable sermon. Under the roof of the nave you’ll find a man with a serpent, another in mid-somersault, and a minstrel playing bagpipes. The distinguished 17th century historian, Sir Peter Leycester, is buried in the Lady Chapel, and in the Warburton Chapel there is a finely carved Tudor ceiling and 13th century oak stalls – the oldest in Cheshire. During the 1800s, Great Budworth was part of the Arley Hall estate and it is largely due to the energetic Squire Egerton-Warburton, a “conservationist” well ahead of his time, that so many of the attractive old cottages in the village are still in place.