Burtonwood

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Burtonwood is a village in the outermost suburbs of Warrington in Cheshire, England. The name Burtonwood is known worldwide as the location of the former RAF Burtonwood military base. Burtonwood Village itself is a few miles away from the site of the former base.

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[edit] History

Burtonwood was a Chapelry in the Ancient Parish of Warrington, in the West Derby Hundred of Lancashire. It was later created a Civil Parish and was part of the Warrington Poor Law Union and then the Warrington Rural District. In 1974 it became part of Warrington District and is now part of the Warrington Unitary Authority. It is still a Civil Parish (now named Burtonwood and Westbrook) and thus has its own Parish Council. Burtonwood's population rose from 990 in 1861 to 2,408 in 1911 as the mining and brewing industries grew. The parish population leaped to 8,238 in 1951 due to Air Base personnel but dropped to 4,899 in 1971, before rising to 11,265 today as a result of housing development on the old Air Base site.

[edit] Facilities

Burtonwood has three public houses, The Elm Tree,The Bridge Inn and The Chapel House, three social clubs and three churches, St.Michaels, St.Pauls and The Methodist Church. The village has 2 primary schools, Burtonwood Community Primary School and St. Paul of the Cross Primary School. The village does not have a high school or college, the nearest High School is Great Sankey High School, the nearest specialised sixth form is Priestley Sixth-Form in Warrington town centre, though Sankey has a sixth-form attached to the school [1].

[edit] Transport

The village is fairly small, with only 3 bus routes through it, (Arriva 329 to St. Helens, Warrington Borough Transport 29 to Collins Green (subject to rural bus grant) and Ogden 141 (St Helens to Newton) run on behalf of Merseytravel)[2]. The nearest railway station is in Earlestown (1.7 miles) to the north of the village. The nearest major bus interchanges are in Warrington (6.0 miles) and Wigan (8.19 miles), and the nearest airport is John Lennon Airport (~10 miles). [3]

[edit] Trivia

Burtonwood Air Base
Burtonwood Air Base

The village is well known for the RAF airbase but also for its brewery, which brews the Burtonwood ales.

The Air Base was also used by the United States Air Force in the early 1950s and was the biggest US airbase in Europe.

[edit] Statistics

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[edit] Population and Race

  • Population: 5,595
  • Population ratio (Male:Female): 49.2%:50.8%
  • White origin: 98.48%
  • Mixed origin: 0.50%
  • Asian origin: 0.57%
  • Black origin: 0.21%
  • Other origin: 0.23%

[edit] Education and Employment

  • No qualifications: 32.26%
  • GCSE or equivlent only (<=Lv2): 36.77%
  • Advanced (>=Lv3): 21.89%
  • Unemployment: 1.84%

[edit] Housing

  • Total Households: 2,265
  • Owner occupied: 84.68%
  • Shared ownership: 0.26%
  • Council accommodation: 10.64%
  • Housing Association accommodation: 0.18%
  • Other rented accommodation: 4.24%
  1. ^ UpMyStreet.com
  2. ^ Warrington Borough Council Public Transport Guide (09/06)
  3. ^ UpMyStreet.com
  4. ^ 2001 census data from Office of National Statistics for Burtonwood and Winwick ward, Warrington.

Coordinates: 53°26′N 2°40′W

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