Welcome to the Barnton Village Website, which is maintained and hosted by Barnton Parish Council. Barnton is a pleasant, large village located within the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester. The village lies to the north of both the Trent-Mersey canal (part of the famous Cheshire Ring) and the River Weaver, and around 2 miles to the north-west of the town of Northwich. The village has a long, rural history, but grew rapidly in the 1800s thanks to the success of the Brunner Mond company (who occupied a large site in neighbouring Winnington) and who built hundreds of houses for their workers here. The village now boasts an excellent range of local amenities and is within easy reach of the A49, M56 and M6 making it popular with commuters to Liverpool, Manchester and Chester. It is surrounded by wonderful Cheshire countryside and enjoys an enviable location on some of Cheshire’s most attractive inland waterways. |
Barnton Parish Council
CURRENT PROJECTS
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GUNNERS CLOUGH WOOD
The Parish Council is working hard behind the scenes on plans to develop this woodland site over time, and make it a local amenity for the community to be proud of, and for visitors to enjoy.
Having registered the woodland with the Land Registry, an application is currently being worked up to access grants from the Forestry Commission. If successful, we could receive up to 80% funding, which would enable us to carry out a 5 year woodland management plan.
On-going negotiations with Scottish Power have resulted in the company agreeing to fell several trees along the edge of the woodland abutting Hough Lane. This work will be carried out in early December. Once completed, we will then be in a position to begin work on the interior of the woodland.
The schedule of work on the interior will include - felling dead, fallen and invasive tree species; reducing the overly-dense tree canopy, which is thwarting new natural growth; re-planting a range of indigenous trees and tackling much-needed repairs to existing footpaths, boardwalks and wooden access steps. Ivy growth on tree trunks is a long-standing problem and this also needs to be addressed.
The Parish Council is grateful to those people from near and far who have already registered their keen interest in volunteering to carry out the remedial work. We envisage that work will begin in spring of next year.
If this article has roused your sense of community spirit or simply whetted your appetite to get ‘stuck in’, then please feel free to contact me and register your name and contact details. The more the merrier!
Phillip Evoy, Clerk to Barnton Parish Council, Tel: 07849344940 email: barntonpc@aol.com
The Parish Council is working hard behind the scenes on plans to develop this woodland site over time, and make it a local amenity for the community to be proud of, and for visitors to enjoy.
Having registered the woodland with the Land Registry, an application is currently being worked up to access grants from the Forestry Commission. If successful, we could receive up to 80% funding, which would enable us to carry out a 5 year woodland management plan.
On-going negotiations with Scottish Power have resulted in the company agreeing to fell several trees along the edge of the woodland abutting Hough Lane. This work will be carried out in early December. Once completed, we will then be in a position to begin work on the interior of the woodland.
The schedule of work on the interior will include - felling dead, fallen and invasive tree species; reducing the overly-dense tree canopy, which is thwarting new natural growth; re-planting a range of indigenous trees and tackling much-needed repairs to existing footpaths, boardwalks and wooden access steps. Ivy growth on tree trunks is a long-standing problem and this also needs to be addressed.
The Parish Council is grateful to those people from near and far who have already registered their keen interest in volunteering to carry out the remedial work. We envisage that work will begin in spring of next year.
If this article has roused your sense of community spirit or simply whetted your appetite to get ‘stuck in’, then please feel free to contact me and register your name and contact details. The more the merrier!
Phillip Evoy, Clerk to Barnton Parish Council, Tel: 07849344940 email: barntonpc@aol.com