page_title: Winwick, Cheshire
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Winwick, Cheshire / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Oilseed rape field A field of Oilseed rape near to Hermitage Green
context_page_description: Winwick is a village and civil parish in Warrington, Cheshire, England. Located within the historic boundaries of Lancashire, it is situated about three miles north of Warrington town centre, nearby is junction 22 of the M6 and Junction 9 of the M62. Winwick also borders Newton-le-Willows and Burtonwood.
  According to the 2001 Census, the civil parish had a population of 4,366.
context_section_description: King Oswald of Northumbria is believed to have been killed in the Winwick area and the parish church, dedicated to him, was reputedly located with guidance from the "Winwick Pig", a carving of which can still be seen on the church wall. Richard Sherlock was the incumbent at Winwick for some thirty years in the seventeenth century, and Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, spent his early years in the care of Sherlock at Winwick.
  Winwick was the site of a battle in the second English Civil War on 19 August 1648, where Oliver Cromwell defeated a mainly Scottish royalist army.
  The Captain of the RMS Titanic, Edward Smith, married Sarah Eleanor Pennington on 13 January 1887 at St. Oswald's Church.
  At the time of the Doomsday Survey, the village itself was also known as St. Oswalds. This was little more than four hundred years after the death of St. Oswald ! In the church, the remains of a 7th century stone cross with an engraving of the reputed demise of Oswald can be seen.
caption: An Oilseed Rape field in Winwick
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