Willington, Cheshire

Willington is a village and civil parish 9 miles (14 km) from Chester in Cheshire, England.

[1][2][3][a] The village contains a public house (The Boot), farm shop and hotel (Willington Hall).

The name was recorded in the Domesday Book as Winfletone,[5] (under the ownership of Walter de Vernon and consisting of only two households),[6] and then as Wynlaton in the 12th century.

[7] Willington was previously an extra-parochial area in Eddisbury Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866.

Willington Hall was built in 1829 and designed by the Nantwich architect George Latham.