WILLASTON - winner of Cheshire's Best Kept Village contest - has a best kept secret. It was punished in ancient times for being an untidy eyesore!
A symbolic tree planting ceremony takes place at 10.30am on Friday, December 5, in the local churchyard to celebrate the 1997/98 award.
It was under the hated Wirral Forest Laws of 1311, that the township of Willaston was adjudged to have too many dangerous and eyesore marl pits - a limey clay used as fertiliser. Men of the village were made, at their own cost, to fill in the offending tips - (Wyrale by Irby author Greg Dawson).
Ellesmere Port and Neston Mayor Dai Davies officially handed over the award to Harold Stockdale, a member of Willaston Residents Committee. The results announced at Nantwich Civic Hall gave Willaston the trophy beating Tarvin in the village class with populations between 2,500 and 5,000.
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