Arclid
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Arclid is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is about Template:Convert east of Sandbach and Template:Convert west of Congleton. The parish had a population of 199 according to the 2001 census,[1] increasing to 276 at the 2011 census.[2]
History
Etymology
The first written attestation of Arclid is in 1188, spelled Erclid, with the modern spelling first attested by 1240.[3] In the 20th century, scholars usually attributed the origin of the name to the Old Norse personal name Arnkell, combined with Old English hild ("hillside").[3] However, the evolution of Arnkell into "Erk-" is problematic and there are no hills in the vicinity of the village, so a Welsh derivation for the name is more probable.[3] Historical linguist Andrew Breeze argues that the name comes from a Brittonic prefix ar-, meaning "land around" and the Old Welsh equivalent of Clud, meaning "pure one".[3] He suggests that Clud, which is cognate with the name of the River Clyde, was the old name of the stream that runs through the village before joining the River Wheelock.[3]
Gildas
An 11th-century biography of the Romano-British St Gildas states that he was born at a place called Arecluta, which linguist Andrew Breeze argues is Arclid.[3] Gildas was born in the late 5th century, when the area would have been under Welsh control.[3] Gildas may have left the village to study Latin and religion in Chester.[3]
Landmarks
The village pub, the Legs of Man, is situated on the Newcastle Road. A pub of the same name has stood here since the late 1860s, but the present building dates from 1939 and was designed by J. H. Walters. Originally the pub had a thatched roof, similar to the Bleeding Wolf at Scholar Green, but this caught fire in 1956 and was replaced with tiles. Today it has a mock-Tudor exterior and houses a separate restaurant. There is a large beer garden.[4][5]
Arclid Hall Farmhouse stands on Hemingshaw Lane and is a Grade II listed building. It dates from around 1700, and is of three storeys of red brick.[6] It is the only building in the civil parish to be listed by English Heritage.
The village at one time had an active airfield.[7][8]
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