Bronze Age | Robin Hood’s Tump Burial Mound |
1068 | Domesday Book entry as Alburgham, an Anglo Saxon woman’s name |
1138 | Watfield Pavement (Now the A51) A Saxon stone street |
1200 | Alpraham, part of the Forest of Delamere |
1312 | A water mill in the parish |
1500 | The Page family were landowners |
1634 | A great earthquake in Alpraham |
1643 | Forces gathered during the Civil War at Tilston Heath for the “Pitch Battle of Tarporley” |
1662 | Edward Bughall lived in Alpraham. He was renowned for his diary of the English Civil War |
1700 | The centre of Alpraham was at the triangle of grass by Alpraham Hall |
1742 | John Nelson preached under the pear tree at Moat House Farm |
1749 | Rev John Wesley preached at Moat House Farm |
1775 | “Highwayside” first recorded. The houses alongside the A51 |
1772 | The Shropshire Union Canal is opened |
1813 | 23 Deer in Calveley Park |
1839 | The Tithe Map of Alpraham |
1840 | The railway is completed |
1850’s | Three Methodist Chapels in Alpraham. Wesleyan and Primitive |
1850-1860 | Lord Tollemache rebuilds a lot of the farmhouses |
1857 | John Bebbington is murdered by John Blagg, a shoemaker. Many walked to Chester to see him hang on 20th August |
1870 | Tollgate by the Traveller’s Rest to collect charges for using the roads |
1892 | The original Reading Room is built to provide the male inhabitants of Calveley, Alpraham & neighbourhood with a place where they may spend their leisure time pleasantly & intellectually. |
1901 | The Parish of Tilston Fearnall includes Alpraham and Tiverton |
1950 | The Point to Point races permanently meet at Rookery Farm |
1962 | The original Reading Room is given to the two Parishes by the Tollemache Estate |
1966 | The Ladies Afternoon Club was started |
1968 | A new Youth Club was formed |
1967-8 | Alpraham is badly affected by Foot and Mouth disease |
1968 | The Carnival and coronation of the Rose Queen was revived having lapsed since 1935. It continued until 1981 |
2000 | Combined Alpraham and Calveley Millenium Celebration on the playing field |
2018 | The original Reading Room is sold |
2019 | The original Reading Room is demolished |
2023 | Building starts on the new Village Hall |
2024 | The new Village Hall opens |