Великобритания: История и описание деревни Грейт-Бадворт (Cheshire)

Great Budworth is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, 4 mile (6 km) north of Northwich off the A559 road, east of Comberbach, northwest of Higher Marston and southeast of Budworth Heath. Until 1948, Great Budworth was part of the Arley Hall estate. At the 2011 census, the population was 339.

According to Sir Peter Leycester, the name Great Budworth comes from the Old Saxon words bode ("dwelling") and wurth ("a place by water").

Great Budworth is approached from the main Warrington to Northwich road about 2 mile (3 km) from Northwich, along a ridge overlooking two meres, Budworth to the west and Pickmere to the east. It was situated in the hundred of Bucklow and deanery of Frodsham. At 15 mile (24 km) in length and 10 mile (16 km) in width, it was considered to be the second largest parish in Cheshire, after Prestbury. The parish contained nineteen townships: Budworth, Anderton, Appleton cum Hull, Aston juxta Budworth, Barnton, Barterton, or Bartington, Cogfoall, Comberbach, Dutton, Little Leigh, Marbury, Marston, Pickmere, Stretton, Nether Tabley, Over Witley, Nether Witley, and Wincham.

The early history of Great Budworth is documented in the Domesday Book of 1086, which mentions a priest at Great Budworth. In 1130, St Mary and All Saints Church was given to the Augustinian canon of Norton Priory by William FitzNigel, Constable of Chester and Baron of Halton. The lord of the manor during the reign of Henry III was Geoffrey de Dutton. He donated to Norton Priory a third of his land to endow masses for his soul. After the dissolution of the monasteries, King Henry VIII granted the estate to John Grimsditch. It was afterwards divided into several parcels. For centuries, the village was owned by the head of Arley Hall who would collect rent from the villagers. Egerton Warburton also undertook a "campaign to render it (the village) picturesque in Victorian eyes". To this end he commissioned architects including William Nesfield and John Douglas to work on buildings in the village. Douglas remodelled the George and Dragon inn in 1875, and restored some of the cottages. A running pump was the only source of drinking water for the whole community until 1934 when a piped supply was first connected. Until 1948, Great Budworth was part of the Arley Hall estate.

The Grade I listed St Mary and All Saints Church is in the village. Arley Hall, a historic house, is nearby. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth. Clifton Taylor includes it in his list of best English parish churches. Richards describes it as "one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture remaining in Cheshire". In the north chapel is a memorial to Sir Peter Leicester, the 17th century historian, and in the Warburton Chapel is the alabaster effigy of Sir John Warburton who died in 1575. In the north chapel is an organ designed by Samuel Renn, installed in 1839.

Goldmine House and its attached cottage (Rose Cottage), designated as a Grade II listed building, were built in 1870 for Rowland Egerton Warburton of Arley Hall and were designed by the Chester architect John Douglas. Built with brown brick with some timber framing, and clay tile roofs the house faces west. It is a double storied building with two gabled bays. The cottage is simple in form with a dormer and blue brick diapering. The lower storeys are constructed in brown brick. The upper storeys are timber framed with plaster panels. The roof is in clay tiles. The plaster panels are pargetted with floral motifs. Belmont Hall in this parish was built by J. H. Smith Barry Esq., who deposited in it his valuable collection of pictures and statues, afterwards removed to Marbury. Smith Barry sold it to Henry Clarke. As of 2020 it is occupied by Cransley School.

The George and Dragon pub, another Grade II listed building, was initially built as a simple three bay Georgian inn. In 1875, John Douglas was commissioned to restore it by Egerton Warburton. He added tall rubbed chimneys, mullioned windows and a steep pyramidal turret. The double storied inn has bays built in brick with a roughcast rendering on the upper storey. It has clay tiled covered hipped roofs. Its other architectural features comprise a projecting two storey porch with oak post and rail fence inscribed with a number of sayings on either side, lateral bay with four light mullioned window in the lower storey and a three light mullioned window in the upper storey, a tall rubbed brick chimneystack, and the inn sign located diagonally from the right corner. In 2015 the pub was used as a location in the video game Contradiction by developer Baggy Cat.

54–57 High Street is a row of four Grade II listed dwellings in the High Street, built in the early 18th century. The two outer buildings are houses and the two central buildings are cottages. They are built in brown brick with clay tile roofs, and have two storeys plus attics. Each building has a gable, those on the outer buildings larger than those on the inner, all decorated with brick and plaster. Other avifauna includes mallards and coots. The village is a popular location for films and television including Cluedo, and more recently a NatWest advert and the 2019 BBC drama War of the Worlds.