Here we travel to Warmingham, situated roughly between Middlewich and Sandbach, writes Paul Hurley.

We see this pretty village sited in a green hollow where the river Wheelock foams over a weir.

In 1910, the population was 360 people, and much further back it was the home of the well-known old Cheshire family, the Mainwarings who originally resided here as far back as the 11th century.

During the reign of Edward 1(17 June 1239 – 7 July 1307) the family transferred to Over Peover and then Whitmore in Staffordshire where the descendants, the Cavenagh-Mainwarings still live.

The church is dedicated to St Leonard and, as was popular at the time it was originally timber-framed with a brick tower dating from 1715.

The church was re-built in 1797 and then again, but all in stone this time in 1870 by the architect Richard Charles Hussey.

He did not, however, need to alter the tower due to it already being made of brick and stone, resulting in a local rhyme at the time.

'Poor Warmingham, proud people, New church and old steeple.'

A schoolroom was attached to the church in 1839 and enlarged in 1859, around 70 children attended there.

In the photograph, the sun has brought out the warm colours of this fine church bathing it in a soft glow.

Another well-known building is the ever popular and ancient bears Paw public-house seen here around the turn of the last century when John Broad was both the licensee and a farmer.

Now the only pub in the village, The Crown having closed in the late 1800s. Then, of course, the Old Rectory that became well-known as Warmingham Grange, a popular nightclub in the 1970s.

After a fire, the nightclub then known as Sir Gallahads closed in 2005 for refurbishment and the grounds used for housing.Warmingham Grange is a Grade II listed building.