Tushingham cum Grindley

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name = Tushingham
latitude= 53.011640
longitude= -2.705687
population = 166
shire_district = Chester
shire_county = Cheshire
region= North West England
constituency_westminster = Eddisbury
post_town = MALPAS
postcode_district = SY13
postcode_area= SY
dial_code = 01948
os_grid_reference = SJ527462
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Tushingham cum Grindley, containing the village of Tushingham, is a civil parish in the Chester District of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 UK census, the total population of the civil parish was 166.cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792517&c=Tushingham&d=16&e=15&g=427620&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1223164164046&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779|title=Nighbourhood Statistics: Tushingham cum Grindley civil parish|publisher=Office for National Statistics|accessdaymonth=5 October|accessyear=2008]

The "Grindley" component of the name has been given as Grenleg' Grenlet, Grenlee, Grynleye, Grynesley, and Gryndley sometimes with Broke, broc, or "le Brock" added to the end since the thirteenth century. It refers to "Green wood" or "clearing" next to a brook. The brook later became known as Wych brook, and it now forms the county boundary between Cheshire and Shropshire at that point.Harvtxt|Dodgson|1972|p=47]

For the origins of "Tushingham"', two possible explanations have been reported: the first was originally put forward by Eilert Ekwall, who concluded that it referred to "the village of Tunsige's people", but a more recent suggestion is that a more direct origin from the Middle English "tuss(h)e" (a tuft of grass or rushes) and "ing" (a place) with "ham" yields a meaning of "the village in the place where tufts of grasses or rushes grow". All the forms of the name that Dodgson records from the Domesday Book onwards begin with "Tus-" as opposed to "Tuns-": Tusigeham, Tussinhgham, Tussincham, Tussingeham, and Tussyncam.

Tushingham was originally a township in Malpas ancient parish which obtained its separate civil parish status in 1866. As a separate civil parish it has sometimes been known as "Tushingham" or "Tushingham with Grindley".Harvtxt|Youngs|1991|p=39] It was originally in Broxton Hundred. From 1837 to 1857 it was in Nantwich Poor law union, and from 1857 to 1930 it was in Whitchurch (in Shropshire) poor law union. It was also part of Whitchurch rural sanitary district. Following the local government restructuring at the end of the nineteenth century, when local districts were formed using rural sanitary districts as a guide, Tushingham joined Malpas rural district and remained there from 1894 to 1936. From 1936 to 1974 it became part of Tarvin rual district. Since 1974 it has been part of Chester District.Harvtxt|Youngs|1991|pp=3,39]

St Chad's Chapel, Tushingham is a Grade I listed building, and it is reported that there appears to have been a chapel present there since the fourteenth century. [Harvtxt|Dodgson|1972|p=48]

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*citation|last=Dodgson|first=J. McN.|year=1972|title=The place-names of Cheshire. Part four: The place-names of Broxton Hundred and Wirral Hundred |publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0521082471
*citation|last=Youngs|first=F. A.|year=1991|title=Guide to the local administrative units of England. Volume II: Northern England|location=London|publisher=Royal Historical Society|isbn=0861931270