 high legh is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of cheshire east and the ceremonial county of cheshire, england. it lies six miles north west of knutsford, seven miles east of warrington and seventeen miles south west of manchester city centre. according to the 2001 census, the population of the entire civil parish was 1,632.2001 census population figures accessed 14 may 2007. ==history== unusually this village was home to two ancient landed gentry families for generations, namely: leigh of west hall and cornwall-legh of east hall. both halls have now been demolished, but both families are still represented today, the head of the west hall family being edward leigh mp but no longer associated or living within the parish and that of the east hall family headed by richard, 6th baron grey of codnor. a member of a cadet branch of the leigh of west hall family was created a baronet in 1773, becoming sir egerton leigh, but this title is now dormant. the third lords of the manor were the egertons of tatton and all three landed families swapped and consolidated their estates throughout the 18th and 19th centuries until the egerton leighs sold their high legh estate to the cornwall-leghs just before world war i. when maurice, the last lord egerton of tatton, sold off the remaining farms and land in high legh in the 1930s, so ended a connection dating back to the 13th century. east hall was demolished in the early 1970s (while west hall had been some 20 years previously) and the debris was used as foundations for the first thelwall viaduct bridge of the m6. high legh hall (east hall) resembled nearby tatton park and the west hall (egerton leigh) was a beautiful tudor building which looked not unlike little moreton hall. in a mainly agricultural area, its proximity to manchester and the area now known as gold trafford, has made it nowadays a most desirable residential ar
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