Brindley
Brindley is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England. The village lies 3¾ miles to the west of Nantwich. The parish also includes the settlements of Brindley Lea, Ryders Bank and part of Radmore Green, with a total population of about 150. Nearby villages include Barbridge, Burland, Haughton and Faddiley.
History
The name Brindley means "a burnt clearing". The township does not appear in the Domesday survey, the first mention of Brindley being in 1288. Brindley fell within the ancient parish of Acton and was once part of the manor of Baddiley. Landowners included Willis Allen in 1656, Sir Thomas Mainwaring and Sir Thomas Brereton in 1671, and the Wilbraham and Tomkinson families from 1798.Medieval landowners
In medieval times Brindley township and the Norman landowners that took its name were called Burndelegh, Birnedelegh, Burendeleg, Brundelegh, Brundeley, Brundylegh and later in Tudor times until the 18th century, 'Brundley', eventually evolving to the modern Brindley.
Earlier, in c.1272 a marriage was arranged to unite two Norman families. Gilbert de Stoke, son of Randle de Praers, was betrothed to Isolda de Brereton, daughter of Sir Ralph Brereton. As part of Isolda's marriage settlement, land at Brundelegh, was given to Gilbert. Their first son decided to call himself Brundelegh de Brundeley after the land that he had inherited.
In 1288, Philip Russell sued William de Bulkelegh, Richard de Burndelegh and William, son of Matilda de Stok, in a trespass case. This also ended up including 'Birndelegh', when Richard the clerk of that place failed to prosecute William de Spurstow that same year. The same source – The County Court Rolls – also stated that the Burland family had lands in Burndelegh.
On 10 November 1361, Edward, Earl of Chester, granted the office of Constable of Beeston Castle to John de Brundelegh, with a salary: £4 a year and receiver of St. Pierre lands of which Brindley was a part, and also turf from Peckforton Moss. The orders included to reside in the castle. Edward, Earl of Chester in 1361, was the son of Edward III and was also Prince of Wales, famously known as the Black Prince.
In common with much of the surrounding area, the village was occupied by Royalist forces as they advanced on Nantwich in December 1643 during the Civil War.
The civil parish was enlarged from to in a series of boundary changes between 1871 and 1891.
Governance
Since 1967, Brindley has been administered by the Brindley and Faddiley Parish Council, jointly with the adjacent civil parish of Faddiley. From 1974 the civil parish was served by Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council, which was succeeded on 1 April 2009 by the new unitary authority of Cheshire East. Brindley falls in the parliamentary constituency of Chester South and Eddisbury, which has been represented since the 2024 general election by Aphra Brandreth of the Conservative Party. It was previously part of the Eddisbury constituency, which since its establishment in 1983 had been held by the Conservative MPs Alastair Goodlad, Stephen O'Brien, Antoinette Sandbach and Edward Timpson.Geography, transport and economy
Radmore Covert lies at, and there is also a small strip of woodland at. An unnamed brook runs east–west across the civil parish and there are numerous small meres and ponds scattered across the farmland. The land use is predominantly agricultural, with cattle pasture, horse paddocks and some arable land.The A534 between Nantwich and Wrexham runs east–west towards the southern boundary of the parish. Other through routes include Brindley Lea Lane and Brindley Hall Road, which both run broadly north from the A534 towards Haughton, Long Lane, which runs to the north west from the A534 to Radmore Green and Haughton, and Kidderton Lane, which runs to the south east from the A534 towards Hollin Green.