Gawsworth is an ancient village located to the South West of Macclesfield on the A536 between Macclesfield and Congleton and is renowned for its beautiful scattered cottages and farms mingling within leafy lanes. Gawsworth is home to three great houses and a distinguished church set around a descending string of pools with the most notable hall being Gawsworth Hall; a very much loved and lived in family home, run by the Richards Family.
Gawsworth Hall is a Tudor black and white Grade I timber framed house built between 1480 and 1600, replacing an earlier Norman house. Few settings offer the romance of Gawsworth Hall which caters for Weddings and even has an open-air theatre and is a great tourist attraction for the local area.
It was once home to the Dark Lady of Shakespears’s Sonnets; and Magoty Johnson, Britain’s last professional Jester. A wood in the village known as Maggotty Wood is the burial place of the eighteenth-century dramatist Samuel “Maggotty” Johnson. His ghost is believed to haunt the wood.
Gawsworth has a range of community amenities, including two churches, two pubs, scout hall, village hall, a park, two woodlands, a community shop and a hub that provides a wide range of additional facilities for the benefit of all in the local community.