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Shotwick is recorded in the Domesday boo (1086), within the Cheshire Hundred of Willaston, with six households listed. Shotwick Castle was built about 1093 by Hugh Lupus, 1st Earl of Chester at what is now Shotwick Park and near the River Dee, before the area succumbed to the effects of silting. The Norman castle lay in ruins by the 17th century and now only the foundations remain. Henry II left from Shotwick for Ireland and Edward I used the port to leave for Wales in 1278
The Church of St Michael is mainly 14th century, with a Norman doorway. There is a good three-decker pulpit, box-pews and a canopied church warden seat of 1673
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