MORETON-CUM-ALCUMLOW, OB GREAT MORETON, Is a Small Town
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. ASTBURY PARISH tenham, Esq., Mr. Thomas Chaddock, and Mr. Robert Bridle are also proprietors. The tithes have been commuted for £137 10s. At the Doomsday Survey this township is sup posed to have been either waste or included in what occurs under the hl'ad of Congleton. It takes its name from H ulme and Waijield, and was divided into many shares before the 35th of Edward III., and, so late as Charles I., was possessed in equal portions by the Traffords, Handfords, Massies, and Leversages. DIBECTORY.-Robert Bridle, gentleman, Daisy Bank; Edward Woollett Wilmot. Far mers-David Brindley, F.dward Davenport, Thomas Davenport, Thomas Foden, Thomas Heath, David Hulme (The Hall), Henry Hulme, Jeffrey Lucas, William Taylor. MORETON-CUM-ALCUMLOW, OB GREAT MORETON, is a small town ship containing a scattered district of houses, 2! miles S.S. W. from Congleton. The eastern side of the township is intersected by the North Staffordshire Railway and the Macclesfield Canal ; it contains 1,100 acres of land; George Holland Ackers, Esq., is the chief owner and lord of the manor. At the last census, in 1841, here were 20 houses and 148 inhabitants; population in 1801, 116; in 1831, 141. Rateable value, £1,708 4s. The tithes are com muted for £123 10s. The wauor was possessed at an early period by a family which assumed the local name, and from whom it passed by a female heiress to the Bellots. About the middle of the fourteenth century, Sir Thomas Bellott, the last baronet of the family, sold Great Moreton to Edward Powis, Esq., whose son sold it to Holland Ackers, Esq., ancestor of the present proprietor. The Barons of Kinderton claimed the,right of having the constables sworn at their court. ALCUMLOW is a hamlet near the western verge of the township, of which Randle Wilbraham, Esq. is the owner MoRETON HALL is a. handsome castellated mansion, surrounded with a well-wooded park, richly adorned with picturesque beauty, and is the seat of G. H. Ackers, Esq. DIRECTORY.-George Holland Ackers, Esq., The Hall; Thomas Brereton, blacksmith, and vict., Three Horse Shoes. Farmers-John Doorbar, Daniel Heath, Thomas Priddin, Charles Yarwood. ODD RODE is a populous township, 3!- miles S.S. by W. from Congleton,iutersected by the Trent and Mersey canal. The :M:o.cc!esfield canal and the North Staffordshire Railway take their course on the east side of the township for more than a mile and a half. The township contains. 3,692A. 2R. UP .of land, and in 1841 had 308 houses and 1581) inhabi- . tants, which are chiefly comprised in the several hamlets of Scholars' Green, Hall Green, Kent Green, Rode Heath, and Thurlwood. Population in 1801, 917; in 1831, 1300; rateable "value, .£7965. The tithes are commuted for £379. os. Randle Wilbraham, Esq., is the principal landowner, besides whom C. B. Lawton, Esq., G. H. Ackers, Esq. G. C. Antrobus, Esq., Mr. William Chaddock, Messrs. Sutton and Co., and a few others, are also owners. Odd Rode or Little Moreton-cum-Rode, are noticed as two manors in the doomsday survey, and are described as having inclosures for taking wild deer, and an area for hawks. The divisions are distinguisbed by the names of Little Moreton and Rode, A branch of the Grabams settled in Little Moreton in the 13th century, the third of whom assumed the name of Moreton, and his descendant in the male line continued till the death of Sir W. Moreton, in 1763, when his nephew, the Rev. Richard Taylor, took the local name, and it is now possessed by the Rev. W1llio.m Moreton. Roger Wilbraham purchased the manor of Rode from a family which bore the local name, and who were settled here as early as the reign of King John, in 1609. It is now the property of R andle Wilbrabam, Esq., whose grandfather built the present hall in 1752, which has been greatly improved by the present proprietor. The HALL is an 6legant stuccoed mansion of considerable extent, delightfully situated, overlooking a fine sheet of water, covering forty.two acres. It is surrounded with tasteful pleasure grounds and shrubberies, and beautified with conservatories. It is now the seat and rroperty of Rtmdle WilbraQam, Es<J·• who is the oldest uu~gistrate in Cheshire, .