To ask which village to move to in Cheshire

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We are planning a move from London to Cheshire. I have an image of moving to a semi rural village but it must have at least a pub & a shop! Despite originally being from the north west both myself & my husband have lived in London for so long that we don't know where to focus our property search. DH family live in frodsham so close but not too close would be good (IYKWIM!)

Any recommendations of lovely villages from the wise mumsnetters.

Thanks ladies for all the suggestions - I think we need to do some exploring. I like Bunbury, tarpoley, tarvin but I have seen on rightmove that for our budget we could probably get more for our money in Davenham.

Quick and probably daft question but how important is religion for school admissions? I've seen that some villages just have CoE primary schools. I know in london you can only get in religious schools if you are religious and can prove attendance at church etc is it the same up north? If the local village school is CoE and we are atheist would it be a problem?

I know I went to the local CoE primary despite my family not being religious but things have probably changed!

A lot of village C of E schools in Cheshire don't have any religious criteria in admissions. They're just community schools with a church ethos.

Great that is good to know, thanks

As rally said village schools tend to be church schools. Davenham is lovely as is Hartford. Good high schools too.

Frodsham regularly wins best village awards. It's got lots of shops and amenities.

Ps davenham is Dave-enham the locals hate it being pronounced like Dagenham

What is your budget incidentally ?

Hartford traffic is a nightmare too

I'm from Frodsham, hello!
It was a great place to grow up.

Tattenhall, Bunbury, Tarporley, Audlem.

Frodsham is nice but has quite a bit of traffic and noise from the M56. Also, it isn't semi-rural.
The villages I have suggested have a lot going on socially, great for kids growing up, and have more than one pub!

If you live in the naice part of Frodsham it's semi-rural

If you head further south you've got Audlem and Malpas.

Alderley Edge.

Up the hill in Frodsham is semi rural.

Cross posts rally!

As the thread hadn't refreshed

Somerford and holmeschapel are nice, what's your price range?

Where do you need to commute to, OP?

Check where the proposed HS2 route will be. I'd avoid Ashley for that reason and the sodding planes.

It must be our flaky phone signal in our semi-rural area Purple

Audlem is lovely.

Audlem and Malpas are both very nice and Malpas has great schools both primary and secondary (Bishop Heber) with no religious criteria for entry.

Davenham primary is oversubscribed most years I think. Traffic there can be hairy too, in the mornings.

Agree with pps that religion is rarely an issue - unless you're miles from an RC school, which are rarer.

Elton is a decent place.

Also Betley.

Lovely bigger places are Congleton, Alsager, Chester itself hard to beat.