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TARPORLEY, CW6 6DB

Tarporley is a large (population 2,614 at the 2011 Census) picturesque village on the west of the Cheshire Plain. It is believed that the High Street was part of a Roman Road called the Via Devana which ran from Chester to Colchester and the Domesday entry indicates that Tarporley was a small agricultural settlement in Norman times (http://www.tarporley.org.uk/about/history/ History of Tarporley). During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the village was on the route used by many traders travelling by coach between London and Chester and those dealing in salt mined in nearby Nantwich and it developed with many hostelries to revive the weary traveller (http://www.tarporley.net/main/about.htm About Tarporley). One of those hostelries can be seen on the right hand side of the high street in this photograph. The building with the flags outside is The Swan, a Grade II* listed building adding from the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century (Historic England List Entry Number: 1136655 http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1136655&resourceID=5 Heritage Gateway).

Historic former coaching inn on High Street, dating from C18. Internally, comfortable, with lots of armchairs; bar to left, eating and drinking areas left, front and back; wooden panelling, background music. Cask ales on offer at my visit: Timothy Taylor Landlord, Weetford Bitter, Cheshire Cat & Eastgate; Wells Bombardier. Listed by English Heritage: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=57244&mode=adv

A wide main street with many independent businesses and fine houses.

Showing position of Postbox No. CW6 334. See Image] for postbox.

Postbox No. CW6 334. Outside the Post Office. See Image] for context.