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Tarvin

In the Domesday Book Tarvin is recorded as one of the larger manors in Cheshire and by the 1300s was the centre of an extensive parish. The present church was begun at this time and boasts the oldest surviving timber roof in Cheshire. The village came to prominence in the Civil War when Gen. Sir William Brereton made it his headquarters during the siege of Chester. In August 1644 there was fighting near the church and bullet marks can still be seen around its west door. One of them even penetrated a brass by the chancel that had been placed there in memory of a former mayor of Chester. The plaque remained there for many years until a Victorian sightseer prised it out and made off with it. Just over a century after that skirmish, a major fire in 1752 destroyed much of Tarvin but one fortunate result of the conflagration was that the rebuilding of the village left it with an abundance of handsome Georgian buildings.