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St John's Church is in School Lane, Burwardsley, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Malpas. Its benefice is combined with those of Holy Trinity, Bickerton, St Wenefrede, Bickley, and All Saints, Harthill.
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Burwardsley
Burwardsley is a village and civil parish the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The parish also includes the small villages of Burwardsley, Burwardsley Hill, and Higher Burwardsley. The parish is part of two Cheshire long-distance footpaths, the Sandstone Trail, and the Eddisbury Way.
The parish church of St John the Divine in Burwardsley dates back to 1730. The village has a village shop with post office and a pub, The Pheasant Inn, with views over the Cheshire plains to Wales and Merseyside. The pub claims to date back to 1650, when there were three ale houses in Burwardsley, although it was not called The Pheasant until the 1970s.
The former primary school has been converted into an outdoor education centre.
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Bulkeley Hill Narrow Gauge Railway
The Bulkeley Hill Narrow Gauge Railway was a 350-yard (320 m) long 2 ft (610 mm) gauge rope-hauled incline on the Bulkeley Hill near Bulkeley in Cheshire, England. With a grade of nearly 1:1 in one section, it is known as Cheshire's Steepest Railway.
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Peckforton Hills
The Peckforton Hills are a sandstone ridge running broadly northeast–southwest in the west of the English county of Cheshire. They form a significant part of the longer Mid Cheshire Ridge which extends southwards from Frodsham towards Malpas.
Bulkeley Hill (grid reference SJ525552) stands at the south end, and the ridge is continued southwards by Bickerton Hill. The high points are Peckforton Point (SJ529557; 203 m), immediately north of Bulkeley Hill (224m), and Stanner Nab (SJ531573; 200 m), towards the northern end of the ridge.
Settlements around the hills include Burwardsley to the west, Beeston to the north, Peckforton and Bunbury to the east and Bulkeley to the south. On Ascension Day the parishioners of St Boniface, Bunbury walk to the 200m summit of Stanner Nab for a service as the sun sets.
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Harthill, Cheshire
Harthill is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
All Saints Church, Harthill is a Grade II* listed building.