258 CREWE GREEN. CHESHIRE. [KELLY'B of Congleton, archdeaconry of Macclesfield and diocese manor and sole landowner. The soil is sand and clay; of Chester. The church of St. Michael, erected in 1858, subsoil, very wet. The land in this neighbourhood is is an edifice tJf brick and stone in the Gothic style, from principally in pasture. The are·a of Creweo township designs by the late Sir G. Gi1bert Scott, of London, and is 1,964 acres of land and 6g water; rateable value. consists of chancel, nave and a western turret containing £13,818; the population in 1891 was 448. one bell. The register dates from the year 1858. The Parish Cle.rk, William Waddington. living is a perpetual curacy, average tithe rent-charge, Letters through Crewe, which is the nearest money order £150, net yearly value·, £150, in the gift of the Earl of & telegraph office. Wall Letter Box cleared IO.IO Crerwe, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Henry Ireland a.m. & 7.15 p.m Blackburn M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, hon. canon National School (mixed), built by Hungerford, third of Ohester and RuraJ. Dean of Oonglerton. The vica•ra~ Baron Crewe, in 1882, for 140 boys & girls; averag& house was erected in 1889 by Hungerford, third Baron attendance 120; & is supported by the Earl of Crewe; Crewe. The Earl of Crewe P.C. is lord of the William W addington, master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Price Thomas Henry, farmer .Alien John Bennion Joseph, farmer Richards w·illiam, farmer Arscott John, Amicia tenement Booth Richard, farmer Slinn George, cowkeeper Blackburn Rev. Canon Henry Ireland Bosley James, farm bailiff to the Smith William, stud groom to the M.A. (hon. canon of Chester & rural Earl of Crewe, Crewe park Earl of Crewe dean of Congleton), Vicarage Cliff Thomas, farmer, Crewe gates Stubbs George, cowkeeper Brown Thomas Green Samuel, cow keeper Thornhill Mary (Mrs.), farmer Buchan James Ha.rtley Peter Pendlebury, farmer, Thornhill Richard, farmer Dunkley Benjamin,Lime Tree cottage Park farm Vaughan Alfred Ellis, surgeon Humphries Thomas, Crewe Green rd Hilditch Thomas,millr.Crewe Grn.mill Wettenhall William, gardener to the Leech Frederick, Park view Knott John, farmer, Bridge farm Rev. Canon H. T. Blackburne M.A :McCracken William, Eagle Sea house McCracken William, estate agent to Whitaker William, gardener to the Smith William, Rose cottage the Earl of Crewe, Englesea house Earl of Crewe, Crewe hall Vaughan Alfred Ellis Micklewright Margaret (Mrs.), tem- Whittaker Geo. Alfd. farmer,Bank fm Whittle George B. Barthomley road perance hotel, Crewe Green road Wilkinson Richard Thornhill, farmer, Wilkinson Williom, Vine cottage Oulton Samuel, farmer Toll Bar farm
CROUGHTON is 'Crowton house, being the. property of the Ecclesiastical Commis .. and Onston township-s in Weaverham, and a detached sioners. Rafeo Oswald Leycester esq. of Toft, and Roger part of Norley St. John: it is I mile west from Acton Willia.m Wilbraham esq. of Delamere House, Cuddinj!'ton~ Bridge station on the London and North Western railway, are joint lords of the manor and chief landowners. The 2 miles west from Weaverham and 6 from Northwich, in soil is heavy; subsoil, clay. The land is principally in the Eddisbury division of the county, hundred and petty pasture; tihe chief crops are wheat, oa>ts and potatoes. sessional division of Eddisbury, union and county court The area of the township is 1,738 acres; rateable value. district of Northwich. 'fhe River Weaver comes up to £3,645; the population in 1891 was 531. this place. Christ church, erected and consecrated 1871, Post Office, Crowton.-Mrs. Fanny Bellringer, sub-post. is an edifice of red sandstone in the Early English style, mistress. Le·tters arrive at a. 45 a.m. through North- from designs by John L. Pearson esq. R.A., F.S.A. of wich via Weaverham; dispal;ched at 5·30 p.m. Postal London, consisting of chancel, nave, north transept, south orders are issued here, but not paid. Norley is the porch and: a western turret containing 3 bells: there are nearest money order & telegraph offics :248 sittings. The living is a vicara.ge, yearly gross value, School (mixed), built in r872, for 200 children; average £3oo, net £2oo, derived from thei Ecclesiastica.l Commis- sioners, with residence, in the gift of the· vicar of Weaver· attendance, 95; George Bellringer, master ham, and held since r8g5, by the: Rev. Joseph Francis ONSTON, a small village, a mile and a half west Phelps, There is a small Primitive ;Methodist chapel from Weaverham, was· annexed to Crowton in 1892 by here, erected in 1840, with a Sunday school attached, the Count·y Council, confirmed by Local Government and a Baptist cliapel built in 1864- Crowton House, a Board Order No. 28,045. Phelps Rev.JosephFrancis,Vicarage ho Hayes John, blacksmith Moreton James, farmer Tomlinson John Heppard Thomas, farmer, Birch house Moreton Samuel, farmer Hignett Roger William, ~Shopkeeper Newall John, farmer & overseer COMMERCIAL. Hignett Samuel (exors. of), farmers & Oakes Herbert, farmer Ilellringer Fann.y (Mrs.),grocr.Post off landowners, Onston hall Pollock George, farmer Burston Martha (Mrs.), Pickering-o' Hignett Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Ravenscroft Thos.frmr.Pear Tree frm th'-Boat P.H Holland Thomas, farmer Rigby John, farmer Chrimes Robert, shoe maker Hough John, farmer Tittle .Ann (Miss), farmer Crouchley Mary (Mrs.), Hare & Lewis J ames, farmer W a[ker Dennis, farmer Hounds P.H Lightfoot Samuel, farmer Williamson Robert, farmer, Ivy house Fletcher John, shopkeeper Longshaw Wm. farmer & overseer Wood William, miller (water) Garfit Charles Taylor, land agent to McGregorPaulMiller,frmr.Crowton hall Woodward Dennis, farmer R. W. Wilbraham esq. Ruloe Marrow :Mary (Mrs.), farmer Woodward Peter, farmer Haddock John, farmer Minsha11 Ralph, farmer Wright John, farmer DARESBURY is a village and parochial chapelry, this church, undetr the name of the " White Chapel of constituted 27 Fe·b. I88o, with a station in Moore town England," was the subject of some of the. remarkable ship, on the London and North Western and Great Wes predictions of William or Robert Nixon, an illiterate and tern joint railway, ·and is 4! miles south-west from War half-witted "prophet," said to have lived in the reign rington oand s! north-east from Frodsham, in the Knuts of Edward IV. and believed tG have been a native of ford. division of the county, hundred of Bucklow, petty Over; his prophecies, which are adopted by Fielding, sessional division of Daresbury, union of Runcorn, county in his "Tom Jones," and also mentioned by the historian, court district Gf Warrington, rural deanery of Frodsham Oldmixon, were published in Manchester, in 1873 :the west, and: archdeaconry and diocese of Chester. The south-east chapel originally belonged to the Brookes church of All Saints is a. building- of stoneo, in the Per family, of Mere, but has since been added to the Dares· pendicular style, consissting of chancel, clerestoried nave bury estate, and was again rebuilt at the restoration of of five bays, aisles, w chapel or ohancel at the east end the church in 1870-2: there are memorials to the families of the south aisle, rebuilt by the lord of the manor in of Byrom, and Cooke, of Moore, and to the Rev. Josepb 1773, north and south porches, and an embattled western Blackburn, 32 years incumbent here, d. 20 June, 1787; tower with pyramidal roof, conta!ning a clock and 6 bells : and a fine monument of white marble, with symbolical
