DIRECfORY.} CHESHIRE. WINSFORD. 623 Here is a. _F_re_e l\I~thodist chapel, erected in 1:875• the ol_d 1 and co-heiresses: Rester, who married Charles Legh, chapel adJOlllrng IS now used as a Sund-ay school. J..egh s of Adlington, became eventually the sole possessor, and, charity of £1 12s. Bd. yearly is for clothing. Here are dying without issue, devised thi:"~ estate of Edward Town­ several rock sa1lt mines and salt manufactories. Wincham shend esq. of Chester, from whom it passed into the Hall, now used as a high iChool for girls, is pleasantly family of Leycesoter-Warren, Barons de Tabley, a title situalted on the knoll of a hill, at the foat of which runs now extinct. The Hon. Lady Leighton-War'ren, of the brook called the Peaover Eve; principal, Miss Fmncis Ta1bley House, Knutsford, daughter of George, znd baron Elizabeth Parkes. The manor anciently belonged .to the de Tabley, and widow of Sir Baldwin Leighton bart. is V enables family, as a portion of the barony of Kinder- the presenlt; lady of the manor. The Hon. Lady Leighton­ ton; and about the year 1200 it passed in marriage Warren and Edward Lee Townshend esq. of Weaverham, with Maud V enables to the Elet family; but some few are the principal landowners. The township of Wincham years ait-er it was re-purchased by its previous owners., contains 1,2ro acres of land and 36 of water; rateable and was subsequently transferred by ma.rriage to roe value, £5,790; the population in I90I was r,o54· Wastneys, whose co-heiresses brought it to the .families of Legh and Cholmondeley. William Harcourt, a de- By Local Government Board Ordel"" :No. 22,879• a de­ scendant of Sir Richard Hareourt, k't. of Wytbam Berks, tacbed part of Marston was in I889 transferred to Win- having become possessed in I563 of one of the oham. moieties by marriage with the daughter of iRicbard Post Office.-Walter 'Herbert Ormston, sub-pDstmaster. Leftwich esq. took up his residence at 'Vincham, where L~t€rs through Knutsford arrive ~t g.zo a.m. & dis­ hi:> posterity remained till I668; the estate afterwards p!lltched a.t 5 ·45 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, came into the possession of Robert Venables, of Antrobus, but not paid. Lostock Gralam is the nearest money this being the third time that the manor had been so order & telegroph office, I mile dist11nt vested, and upon the death of Robert Venables, the last male heir, in 1687, the manor passed to his sistei" FrancPs, Infants' School, erected in r89<), & affililated to the Na- v,ife of Thomas Lee esq. and was held by their son tional sohools, Lostock Gralam, for ISO childu-en; aver- J{obert, whose son, of the same name, left two daughters age attendanoe, 59; Miss Ethel Gleave, mistress ! Fryer John, farmer, Bank farm Salt Union Limited (head offices at COMMERCIAL. Hewitt Jn. Thos. landowner & farmer Winsford) Bannister Thos. shpkpr. & beer retlr Hodkinson John, furniture dealer Salt Workers' Union (William Yar- Barber Marr-y (Mrs. ),frmr. Smoker bill Hopley Edward, farmer, Leonard's fm wood, sec) Boden Charles (Mrs.), shopkeeper Kendrick Waiter, grocer Sbaw John, Wincham hotel Bostock William Ralph, farmer Lit:tler Edward, pruvision de'<ller Stelfox Samuel, painter Bradbury William, farmer Parkes Frances Elizabeth (Miss), high Tasker Thomas, farmer Bramhall Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkpr school for girls, Wincham hall Tasker William, farmer Brogden Wm. Townsend Arms P.H PaTkes Sarah (Mi.ss), provision dealer Thompson Alfroo Jabez, salt manufr Cook Sarah Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Platt Arthur, farmer Thompsoill Henry Ingram, salt manufr Davenport J ohn,farmer & agricultural Platt William, farmer Whit..Laker Smuel, grocer implement agent, Wincham cottage llayner James, derk Woodward George Thomas, farmer Derbyshire John, farmer Rayner Joseph, tailor Yarwood J ames, farmer WINCLE (or Winkel), is a township, consisting prin­ value £rso, with 73 acres of glebe and r!I'Sidence, in the cipally of a number of small farms, scattered over a gift of the vicar of Prestbury, and held since r 897 by the mountainous district, stretching to the verge of the Rev. Augustus Dunbar Atkinson M.A. of Ohrist's College, county adjoining Staffordshire, from which it is separated Cambridge. Clowes's charity of £r is for the preaching by the Dane, the valley of which and tbe surrounding of a New YeaTs' sermon. '1.1:J.ere is a Wesleyan. hillsides, being thickly wooded, afford some of the most chapel at Allgreave. Bag-stones, the residence of :\tiss picturesque scenery in the county; it is about 3 miles Booth, is a large and old-fashioned building of stone, and north-east from Bosley station on the Churnet Valley contains many Egyptian curiosities. Philip Lancaster section of the North Staffordshire railway and 6 miles Brocklehurst esq. of Swythamley Hall, John Plant Shuffle­ south-east from Macclesfield, in the :M:acclesfield division both am esq. and William Whiston esq. of Langley, are the of the county, petty sessional division of Prestbury, hun­ chief landowners, and there are several other small pro­ dred, union and county court district of Macclesfield, and prietors. The township contains 2,8 rg acres of laml, was formed into a district chapelry ro Aug. I86g, in the which is mostly copyhold, and is within the manor and rural deanery and archdeaconry of Macclesfield and diocese fvrest of Macclesfield. The soil is clay; subsoil,._ rocky. of Chester. The church of St. Michael, dating from 1647, The area is 2,769 acres of land and 24 of water; rateable is a plain fabric of stone, consisoting only of nave, erected in value, £3,I82; in rgor the population ~was 26r. By Local 1882 on the site of an older structuTe, the embattled Government Board Order No. 22,378 a detached part of western tower of which is still standing, and contains one Wincle townshil(was in I8BB annexed to Wildboarclough. bell: in the belfry are traces of a window probably re­ moved from the ancient chancel : the present stained east Post, Telegraph & Express Delivery Office. John Clowes, window is a memorial to the Rev. Archibald Davy M . .A.. sub-postmast€r. Letters through l\Iacclesfield, via. vicar of this parish 18'818-90: an organ has lately (1902) Rushton, amive at 10.30 a.m. & dispatched 4 p.m. been presented as a memorial to Miss ::\laTion Brockle­ Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Maccles• hurst, of the Bags tones; over the main entrance and field is the nearest money order office the entrance to the vestry are two stones from the old church bearing th!ll insc:ription "Doe Here 0 Lord Sure Parochial School (mixed), erected, with residence for the Plant Thy Word:" there are 170 sittings. The registers master, in I 866, for 99 children; average attendance, date from rBos, prior to which entries were made in the 62; James Potter, master: the school was built by registers of Prestbury, and in those of St. Michael's, Mrs. Ja.mes Daintry, of North Rode, & endowed with :Macclesfield. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly £soo. which "now produces £I4 Ios. yearly Atkinson Rev. Augustus Dunbar M.A. Cooper Emily (Mrs.), fa.rmer,Dnmkins Hine Alfred, farmer, Bennett's hill (incumbent), Parsonage Cundiff Joseph, Ship P.H. & farmer Hine Ernest, farmer, Mare knowl Booth Miss, Bagstones Dale John, farmer, Hawks lee Hine Henry, farmer, Hammerton Jennison James, Rose cottage Dale Joseph, farmer, Bartomley Hunt .Tohn, farmer, Tolls farm Devenport John, fartner, Lane housB Jodrell M'o.tthew, farmer, Hawks lee COMMERCIAL. Davenport Nathan, frmr. Lane head Mason Matthew M. Allgreave Barber Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Gol- Davenport Jas. frmr. Low. Greasley Neild John, farmer, Butterlands den slack Day James, New inn Nixon Joseph,farmer,Higher Greesley Barber Joseph, farmer, Melior Knolls Day Joseph, farmer, Hazels Oliver Richard, farmer, Barley ford Bolshaw Jas. Lrm'l". Ha.mm&ton know! Doorbar Thos. 1armer, Hill Top farm Shuffiebotbam Richd. farmer, Grange Brassington Joseph, farmer, White lee Do-wns Matthew, farmr. Long gutter Swindells John, farmer, Clulow cross Brocklehurst David, tailor&shopkeepr Fernehough Fredk. farmr. Brownhills Thornley George Wm. frmr. Midgley Bullock George, farmer, Wood cottage Gibson Abraham, farmer, Braddocks Trueman John, fa.n:ner, Sandyway Burnett Wm. cowkeeper, Pingle Goodall William, Old Crown inn Warren William, farmer, Nettlebeds Buxton Samuel, farmer, Allmeadows I .Goodwin John, farmer, Burnt house WINSFORD (or Wharton) is a market town, and with railway and another station in the town, called Wharton the. township of Stanthorne was formed into an ecclesias- and Over, which is the terminus of a branch of the same tical parish in I843 from the parish of Davenham; it is line from Hartford, and is 3 miles west-north-west from on the eastern bank of the river Weaver; it has a station Middlewich and 6 south from Northwich: the township is about a mile distant on the London and ~orth Western in the Northwich division of the county, hundred, union .