'' B.A.CK:FORD, . [KELLY'I in black latter, dat.ed 1617: there are various mural Roberts, of Oakfield, near , is the principal land. tablets, including one to t.he Rev. Robert Denson, vicar owner. The area is 328 acres; rateable value, £597; ()f this parish, dated 1750, and another to the Rev. Samuel population in x8gx was 19 Griffiths D.D. late vicar of Avington, dated 1796: in CHORLTON-BY- is a township and village, 1885 a memorial window was erected to the late Rev. intersected by the , a mile and a Canon George Becker Blomfield M.A. (d. x885) and in half north-east from l\lollington railway station, and 4 .l893 a memorial window was erec·ted by Mrs. B1omfield, miles north from Chester, in the higher division of the ()f Mollington hall, to her sister, Miss Margaretta Dorothea hundred of Wirral. Chorlton Hall, a handsome mansion, Feilden: the east window, representing scenes from the is the seat o.f Frederick Dresser esq. Samuel Davies esq. life o~ our Saviour, is a memorial to Elizabeth and John is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The area Feilden and Allen Clayton: theN are 200 sittings. The is 537 acres; rateable value, [x,x36; the population in register dates from the year 1562. The living is a r8gr was 71 vicarage, tithe rent-charge £300, average [222, net yearly value £220, with 21 acres of gleb~ and residence, LEA is a township,intersected by theEllesmere canal,and in the gift of the Bishop of Chester, and held since 1a77 near the Mollington railway station, in the higher division by the Rev. Hichard John Fairclough }LA. late scholar of the hundred of Wirral. Mrs. Blomfield, of :Mollington ()f Christ's College, Cambridge and surrogatxl. The Hall, is the lady of the manor and chief landowner. The charities for di~tribution, partly derived from a house area is 693 acres; rateable value, £3,588; the population and 6a. 2r, 32p. of land, amount to about [25 per in 189 1 was 72• annum. Backford Hall is a mansion of red brick in the GREAT MOLLINGTON, or Mollington-Tarrant, is- a. Elizabethan Gothic style, standing at a .short distance township and village with a station on the London and from the church and is the seat of Birkenhead Glegg esq. North Western and Greab ·we.s·tern joint railways, 2! lord of the manor and chief landowner. The .soil is miles north-north-west fNnl Chester, in the higher sandy, clayey and loamy; the subsoil, mar!. The chief division of the hundred of Wirral. The Shropshire crops are oats, wheat and potatoes. The area of the Union canal passes through the township. Mollington township is 755 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable Hall, the seat of Mrs. Blomfield, is a mansion of brick, value [1,599; the population in r8gt was-parish 523; pleasantly situated in a beautiful park of so acres; township 137. fronting the mansion is a. fine sheet of wa.ter. Mrs. Parish Clerk, John A.shton. Blomfield is lady of the manor and chief lando"\Yner. The Post Office. John Edwards, sub-postma.s•ter. Lett-ers area is 819 acres of land and 13 of water; rateable value, arrive through Chester 7· 15 a. m. Upton Heath is the £2,231; the population in r8gx was 224. nearest money order & telegraph office Letter Box cleared at 4·45 p.m Police Station, Sergeant Samuel Ennion Post Office, Great Mollington.-Mrs. A.nnie Hough, sub- National School (mixed), with a yearly endowment from postmistres·s. ,Letters through Chester arrive at 7.50 Carter's and ·welsby's charities: the school was en- a.m. ; dispatched at 8 p.m.; sunday, arrive at 8 a.m. Iarged in 1894 for 114 children; average attendance, & dispatched at n.IO a.m. Postal orders are issued 65 ; Edwin Thomas Teare, master here, butl not paid. The nearest money order & CA.UGHALL is a small township in the parish of Back- telegraph office is at Great ford, union of Chester, lower division of the hundred ot National School (mixed), for 95 children; average attend- llroxton, 2 miles e.ast from the Mollington railway station, ance, 45; l\Iiss Mary Worker, mistress and 3 north-north-east from Chester. Benjamin Chaffers Railway Station, William Jones, station master BACKFORD. . Davies Samuel, jun. Crosslooms villas Cheers Harold,farmer,Caughall manOT Hughson Arthur, Crosslooms villas Fairclough Rev. Richard John :M.A. Worrall Thomas, frmr. Caughall farm Stevens. Peter, Crosslooms· villas (vicar & surrogate), Vica.rage Glegg Birkenhead, Backford Hall CHORLTON. COMMERCIAL. Dresser Frederick, Chorlton Hall Davies Ralph, farmer, Chorlton lodge Carter John, farmer, Coal PitLane frm COMMERCIAL. Denson William, farmer Davies & Stephen, land agents &c A.shton John, farmer Minshull Thomas, farmer Davies Saml. jun. assist. overseer &c Davies Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Price John, farmer Davies Thomas, surveyor & farmer, ID a vies Mary (Mrs.), farmer Thomas John, farmer Tarrant farm Dutton John, farmer "\Voodfine Richard, farmer Davies "\Villiam, farmer Edwards John, shoo maker & post o:flke Farroll Thos. farmer, Crosslooms farm Ennion Samuel, police sergeant; LEA. Godwin Joseph, cowkpr. & mrkt.grdnr Evans Emma (Mrs.), farmer Carter Susan (:Mlrs.), farmer, Lea Hall Hamilton Anne (Mrs.), farmer Hughes William, farmer Dean Joseph, blacksmith & farmer Hughes John, brick & tile maker Lewis. Robert Griffiths, farmer Hough John, farmer & wheelwright Jones James, farmer Mansley John, cow keeper Mason Peter, farmer, Dunkirk Lancelotte Joseph, boot & shoe maker Williams Samuel, farmer Minshull Jn. jun. frmr. Damage farm Martin Osborne, farmer Williams Thomas, farm bailiff to B. GREAT MOLLINGTO~. Williamson George, brewer Glegg esq Blomfield Mrs. Mollington Hall lVorrall Samuel, cow keeper :BADDILEY is a. township, parish and scattered vil- Dame Martha Mainwaring and T. Bromhal!, tDgether lage, about 2 miles north from "\Vrenbury railway station with other smaller gifts, produce about [52 yearly, in on the and Shrewsbury branch of the London and trust with the churchwardens for distribution amongst North Western railway, 4 south-wes.t from , poor familie~. the heads of which shall bring up their ro north-east from Malpas, x8 south-east from Chester children to read and write and attend divine service at and x66 from London, in the Eddisbury divis•ion of the the parish church. Here are the waterworks belonging county, Nantwich union and county court district, petty to the Nantwich Urban District Council, erected in I854· sessional division of Nantwich, Audlem division of the Mrs. Wicksted, of Betley Hall, is lady of the manor and Nantwich hundred, rural deanery of Nantwich and chief landowner. The soil is various; subsoil, clay and archdeaconry and diocese of Chester. The Chester and sand. 'The land is chiefly in pasture, and the usual crops Ellesmere canal passes through the parish. The church are grown. The area is 1,761 acres· of land and 16 of of St. Mic~el is a small but ancient building of stone, water; rateable value, £3,165; the population in x8gi eased with brick, and consists of chancel, nave and west- was 246. By the Divided Parishes Act, detached parts Hn porrh, above which is a small turret containing- 2 of Baddiley, known as Burland Green and Foxley's Farm bells. The register dates from the year I579· The living were in r882 added to Burland, and at the same date is a rectory, average yearly value from tithe rent-charge, other detached parts were annexed to Faddiley, and in £148, with B! acres of glebe and residence, in the gift r888 a further detarhed part was added to Brindsley. <>f Lord Tollemache, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Sexton, Thomas Parkinson. Jermyn Shephard Hirst B.A. of Queens' College, Cam- Letters through Nantwich, which is the nearest money bridge, who is also perpetual curate of "\Voodhe):. There ordPl" & telegraph office, by foot post is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1878. The charities of Wall Letter Box, cleared at 5.40 p.m Hirst Rev. Jermyn Shepha:rd B.A. Hodgkinson Ralph, cowkeeper Kettle John, cowkeeper (rector), Rectory Hitchin Thos. Lewis, frmr. High fields Mottram "\Villiam, cattle dealer & :Rirchall John, farmer, Crab J'rl'iil farm John, farmer, Dairy farm farmer, Yew Tree house Ilarnett George, cowkeeper, Spring la Holland John, farmer, Blackhurst :O.iurray Thos. Hy. cowkpr. Rose cot (Jhesters Jn. btchr. & frmr.Spring lane Johnson James, farmer, Baddiley cot Nantwich Urban District ·water Works Dutton Benjamin, frmr. Baddiley farm Johnson Thos. frmr. Springe Lane ha:l Pickford Thos. Wm. frmr. Baddiley ho I 1urber IYilliam, farmer, Baddiley hull Johnson William, farmer Walley John, farmer, Mere house