Rowton is a village and civil parish on the outskirts of Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
The Rowton Hall hotel is the most prominent landmark in the village.
[2] The Battle of Rowton Heath took place in the village on 24 September 1645 during the English Civil War.
It resulted in a decisive Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by Charles I. Rowton was previously a township in Christleton parish of Broxton Hundred, becoming a civil parish in 1866.
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