DIR~CTvRY.] CHE:3HIRE. LIS~ARD. 417 enlarged in 1913: an ancient alt.ar cros3, hammered in who by will, dated 1736, in the event of the death of John err.bossed brass, was the gift of Edward Henry Loyd i Harrison, an infant, without issue, left his estate to Mrs. esq. Col. C. H. France-Hayhurst, ef Eostock Hall, a~d I Ann Smith, of Berkeley square, London: according t.o their wives, in 1904: the church affords 230 sittings. Ormerod, the historian of Cheshire, this lady bequeathed The register dates from the year 1849. The living is p. the estate to William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, whose heir vicarage, net yelTly value £202, with residence, in the and brother, Lieut.-General Henry Pulteney, died in 1767, gift of the Bishop of Chester, and held since 1902 by leaving the Bradford estates to his oousin Frances Pulteney, th~ Rev. Robert James Douglas Keith-Chalmers B.A. wife of William Johnstone esq. who thereupon took the of the University of London; the vicarage, adjoining the name of Pulteney, and succeeding his brother in 1794 in church, is a building in the Elizabethan style. The soil the baronetcy of Johnstone, of Westerhall, became Sir is principally clay, also the subsoil. Nearly all the land William Johnstone-Pulteney bart.: on his death, in 1805, is pasture, and cheese is made about here. The area is Minshull Vernon passed to William Henry (Vane) grd Earl 3,903 acres; the population of the ecclesiastical parish of Darlington,and in 1812 his lordship sold the manor,with in 1911 was 424. a large estate, to William Rigby esq. Messrs. Brunner, Parish Clerk, James Booth. Mond and Co. of Northwich, are the present owners. SP:xton, Benjamin Price. Hulgrave Hall, on the bank of the Weaver, and now a farmhouse, is a modern mansion of red brick erected on LEIGHTON (or Leighton Chapel, as it is more tre­ the site of an ancient house of wood and plaster ouently termed), 2! miles south from Minshull Verno.. formerly the seat of the Hulgrave family: it is the. station on the Crewe and Warrington section of the Lon­ property of Lieut.-Col. Fre-derick Cha.rles France-Hay­ don and North We.stern railway, 5 north from Nantwich, lmrst, of Bostock Hall. Newfield Hall, in this township~ 3! north-west from Crewe and 6 south from Middlewich, near the railway, is the property of Messrs. Brunner,. is a township near the Weaver, in the parish of Nantwich, Mond and Co. as is also Erdswick Hall, a large mansion, containing only a few scattered farmhouses, two of which erected in 1849, and now occupied as a farmhouse: it were originally the halls of the Erdswick and the Del was from Erdswick Hall that John Milton, the poet, in. Brooke families; the latter resided there in the reign of r66o, married his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Minshull. Messrs. Henry I. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel here, Hrunner, Mond and Co. who are lords of the manor, r.ow in ruins. Beef is distributed to the aged poor of and Lieut.-Col. Frederick Charles France-Hayhurst, of. Leighton at Christmas by Lieut.-Col. Frederick Charles Bostock Hall, Middlewich, are chief landed proprietors. France-Ha.yhurst. The principal landowner is Lieut.­ The area is 2,6xr acres of land, the greatest part of Col. :Frederick Charles France-Hayhurst, of Bostock Hall, which is applied to dairy purposes, and 25 of water; Middlewich. The area is 1,266 acres; rat~able value, the rateable value is £9,786; the population in I9II £2,199; population in 19II, 136. was 288. MINSHULL VERNON is a township and scattered vil- Bradfield Green is a small village and hamlet ol Mins- lage in the parish of Middlewich, on the eastern bank of hull Vernon, on the river Weaver. At- Cross Lanes are the river Weaver, 4 miles south-west from Middlewich, Ccngregational and Wesleyan chapels. with a station called Minshull Vernon, locally in the Letters for B.rad.field Green and Leighton should be ad-. adjoining township of 1Vimboldsley, on the London and dressed Crewe. Crewe, about 3 miles distant, is the Nort.h Western railway, 162! miles from London, 5 from nearest money order & Church Minshull the nearest: Crewe. The Shropshire union canal passes through. A telegraph office village cross, at the cross roads, was erected to com- Wall Letter Box, cleared 6.15 p.m. week days only memorate the 6oth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Letters for Minshull through Middlewich, Cheshire. This township receives about £5 annually on St. Thomas' There is one delivery daily at 7·30 a.m. Wall Letter- day, from Middlewich, which is distributed to the Box cleared 6.30 p.m. week days only. Middlewich, aged poor. At the time of the Domesday 'Survey this 4 miles distant, is the nearest money order & Church· place was included in the possessions of William Mal- Minshull the nearest telegraph office bedeny. and obtained its suffix on its transfer to the Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 184o, en- Vernons, at the time of the division of the baronial larged & modernized in 1904, at a cost of £510, the· estates: from this family the manor passed to the additions including a central hall, which serves as Odlintons, and afterwards became vested in Thomas children's dining hall k cookery lecture hall, for 113 Acton esq. of Aston, and so remained till the year 1736: children; average attendance, 58; Christopher Plumb, subsequently Minshull Vernon became the property of master tlenry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford of the ISt creation, Railway Station, Benjamin Tushingham, station master- • LEIG HTON CHAPEL. Davies Charles Brereton J.P. Eards- Moss William, butcher & farmer (Letters should be addressed Crewe.) wick hall Newton George, fanner, Moat farm Keith-Chalmers Rev. Robert James Newton Robert, farmer, Lower Elms­ COMMERCIAL. Booth Sauh (Miss), shopkeeper Douglas B.A. (vicar) (letters should Newton Samuel, farmer, Park house Charlesworth Samuel, farmer, The be addressed Crewe) Potts George, wheelwright Red hall COMMERCIAL. Priddin Thomas, farmer, Park.fi.elds Cooper David., cowkeeper Beech George, farmer, Woodside Priddin Thomas Smith, farmer, New-· Ninis Mary (Mrs.), frmr. The Grange Bourne Richard, farmer, Hole house field Hall farm Palin John, cowkeeper Brown Arth. Alien, frmr.Minshull hl Wright Wm. seed mer. Canal wharf Richardson Edwin,frmr.Leighton hall Thomas B. BRADFIELD GREEN. Richard son J sph. Hy .frmr. Tottys hall ~~~!lsey gh~~~~~s, ~~rm,:r Ridout Tom Harry, farmer, Manor ho farmers, Eardswick hall (Letters should be addressed Crewe.' · Robinson Emily & Annie (Misses), Dutton Thomas, butcher Beech Thomas, farmer farmers, The Lodge Hall William J. farmer,' Parlr hall Hulse Charles Hy. & SamL painters Robinson Edwin, farmer, water rate Hollinshead Levi & Mrs. Massey, Hnlse Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer collector k assistant overseer, Mile farmers, Brook farm Jinks William, farmer & assistant~ House farm Hollinshead Annie (Mrs.), farmer, overseer, Church farm Stubbs Annie (Mrs.), cowkeeper Weaver bank Lea William, farmer Stubb.s Henry, cowkeeper Hollinshead Chas. farmer, Dairy frm Mealor John William, blacksmith Woolley Harry, farmer Kinsey William, farmer Plumb Christopher A.R.C.O. schooi~- Moreton Mary Ellen (Mrs.), farmer, master & organist MINSHULL VERNON. Spring farm Prescott Richd. frmr. Newhull grove Burton John, Newfield house Morris George, farmer, The Elms Washington Thos.Coach & Horses P.H LISCARD is an ecclesiastical parish, formed July 2, The parish church of St. Mary, erected in 1877• is a :r877, with a station called ;Liscard and Poulton. on building of stone in the Early English style- consisting the Wirral railway, and about 2! miles north from Birken- of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an em­ head, and about half a mile from Egremont steam ferry. battled western tower with pinnacles, co:Gtaining 8 bells, By Local Government Board Order No. 58,295, which 1 the gift of Mrs. Brooks in memory of her husband, came into operation April 1st, 1912, Liscard civil parish William Brooks esq. of Brooklands: the east wmdow is was added to Wallasey civil parish, and forms one of stained, and there is a memorial window to Captain the ten wards of the Wallasey County Borough; it is Gleadell, d. 1888: the reredos of carved oak, erected in in the Wirral division of the county, lower division of 1891, is a memorial to Mrs. Miller, who died in that the hundred of Wirral, union and county court district year: the church affords 8oo sittings. The register of Birkenhead and petty sessional division of Wirral, dates from the year 1877. The living is a vicarag-e, net . rural deanery of Birkenhead and archdeaconry and yearly value £4oo, in the gift of the Bishop of Chester, diocese of Chester. The district is supplied with gas and held since :rgo8 by the Rev. Albert Edward Simpson end water by the Wallasey County Borough Council. B.A., B.D. of Trinity College. Dublin. The church of CHESHIRE 27 .