Barnton Village

Barnton Village is situated 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) to the North West of the Town of Northwich. The Village is predominantly of a residential nature, based on an old Village Centre with modern housing estates along with a number of surrounding farms on the perimeter. Barnton is 1.18 square miles (306 Hectares) and has a population of 5,830 (2001 Census) with approximately 2,360 Dwellings.

The Village has grown up alongside the Trent and Mersey Canal and River Weaver Navigation and the associated Chemical works founded in the latter half of the 19th Century by Sir John Brunner and Dr. Ludwig Mond. Very little remains of the early village, the oldest public buildings now left standing are the Parish Church in Church Road and The Chapel in Oakwood Lane (now used as a Theatre). A number of old dwellings can still be seen in Church Road, Leighs Brow and around the Trent and Mersey Canal Basin in Tunnel Road and the Old Canal Workers Cottages No’s 36 to 42 Runcorn Road. The Trent and Mersey Canal Conservation Area follows the Canal Corridor through the Village and encompasses two Tunnels.

Barnton has a number of local shops including a small supermarket, a Butchers, two Chemists, a petrol station with a small supermarket, four Fast Food Takeaways, two Public Houses, two Social Clubs, Library, Doctors Surgery and new medical centre. A new Memorial Hall has been built on the Football Ground at Townfield Lane to replace the Old Brunner Memorial Hall in Lydyett Lane. The new Hall was opened in November 2005. Sporting activity can be seen at Barnton Cricket Club (Squash and Crown Green Bowls are also played here), Barnton Football Club and Crown Green Bowls at the Beech Tree Inn on Runcorn Road.

There is also a Primary School and a Special Needs School, both in Townfield Lane. Religious activity is centred on
Christ Church in Church Road, Church of Our Lady of Fatima in Churchfields, the Methodist Chapel in Lydyett Lane and the Pentecostal Church in Blackcroft Avenue.

There are three Recreation Grounds, two are owned by the Parish Council and one by Vale Royal Borough Council. The Nursery Road Recreation Ground has been upgraded by the Nursery Road Recreation Group a sub Committee
of the Parish Council which has recently carried out improvements worth over Ł400,000, including installing a Skate Park and Teenage Shelter along with two Basketball Nets, lighting, perimeter fencing, landscaping and recently, new play equipment for the younger children. It is hoped that improvements will soon start on Runcorn Road Recreation Ground. There is a youth club held every Tuesday evening at Barnton Memorial Hall.

Bus Services run regularly to Northwich and infrequently to Warrington. The nearest Railway Stations are at Greenbank, Hartford and Northwich.