St Edith Churchyard
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St Edith Churchyard

Shocklach, Cheshire West and Chester Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England

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    Shocklach, Cheshire West and Chester Unitary Authority, Cheshire SY14 7BL England
    Coordinates: 53.04570, -2.84871
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Shocklach is a village in the civil parishes of Church Shocklach and Shocklach Oviatt in Cheshire, England. Shocklach Village is on the southernmost tip of Cheshire. It is approximately 1 kilometre from the border between Wales and England, the River Dee. Shocklach is set beside the tributary of the Dee between Wrexham (16 kilometres away) and Nantwich. The River Dee is a major salmon and sea trout fishery; and one in which Shocklach fishery engages in. "Salmon are most often caught in the sections lying between Shocklach up to Bala Lake".
According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, the village name Shocklach means ‘goblin stream'. Investigating this meaning further, the old English (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) for goblin "was scucca and lache which is a variant of letch which means wet ditch or bog or a stream flowing through boggy land; a muddy, ditch or hole". Similarly there is a village named Shobrooke in Devon, and the dictionary compares the original meaning of this name (goblin brook) with that of the village Shocklach.
Standing in the middle of fields on its own, overlooking the River Dee and Wales, St Edith's Church still remains an important building. It is a Grade I listed building and a small, isolated 12th-century church.

Shocklach is a village in the civil parishes of Church Shocklach and Shocklach Oviatt in Cheshire, England. Shocklach Village is on the southernmost tip of Cheshire. It is approximately 1 kilometre from the border between Wales and England, the River Dee. Shocklach is set beside the tributary of the Dee between Wrexham (16 kilometres away) and Nantwich. The River Dee is a major salmon and sea trout fishery; and one in which Shocklach fishery engages in. "Salmon are most often caught in the sections lying between Shocklach up to Bala Lake".
According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, the village name Shocklach means ‘goblin stream'. Investigating this meaning further, the old English (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) for goblin "was scucca and lache which is a variant of letch which means wet ditch or bog or a stream flowing through boggy land; a muddy, ditch or hole". Similarly there is a village named Shobrooke in Devon, and the dictionary compares the original meaning of this name (goblin brook) with that of the village Shocklach.
Standing in the middle of fields on its own, overlooking the River Dee and Wales, St Edith's Church still remains an important building. It is a Grade I listed building and a small, isolated 12th-century church.

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