302 DUKHAM -ON-THE-HILL. CHESHIRE. [KELLY'S

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DUNHAM-ON-THE-HILL is a village, township l Post Office.-William Higgins, sub-postma.ster. Letters and parish, containing the township of Hapsford, and was arrive from WarringtChester and War- but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph ii'ington, with a station on the London and North Western office is at Helsby, 3 miles distant and Great Western joint railway, 33 miles from Man­ School (mixed & infants) erected, with residP.nce fol' the chester, 6 north-east from Chester and 11 south-west from Warrington, in the Eddisbury division of the county, teacher, in I'874• & rebuilt in 1895, for 75 children; average attendance, 75 ; Samuel Manning, master Chester Castle petty se~sional divis.ion, C~e.ster union aud Police Station, Sergeant William Roberts, constable county court dis.trillt, and in ths rural deanery, archdea­ conry and diocese of Chester_ The church of St. Luke, Railway Station, John Davics, station master erected in 18fn, is a. small edifies M Ted sandstone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch H.A.PSFORD is a to>Ynship I mile north from Dunham and a western turret containing one hell: there are rsa railway station, 4~ miles south-west from Frodsham and sittings. The register dates .!rom the, year rB-61. The 8 north-east from Chester. Harry Barnston esq. o.f Crewe living rs a vicarage, net yearly value £142, with residence, hill, Farndon, is lord of the manor and principal land­ in the gift of the rect(}r of Thornton-in-the-Moors, and owner. The soil is clay and sand. The area is 56:river Mersey, and on the high road from Chester to aisles, south porch and a western tower with octagonal Birkenhead, one mile and a half south from Bromborough broach spire, containing 6 bells : the nave, which is the station and a mile and a half north from Hooton station oldest part, dates perhaps from 1280; the chancel and on the Great- Western and London and North Western tower may be assigned to about 1330; and the aisles are joint railway, a mile and a quarter south from Eastham Perpendicular, the latest portion being the Stanley chapel, Ferry, 9 miles north from Chester and 6 south from at the east end of the north aisle, erected c. rsoo: this Birkenbead, in Wircal divi~ion of the county of Chester, chapel, entered through a beautiful oak screen, adorned higher division of the hundred and in the union of Wirral, with the. quartered arms of the Stanleys of Hooton, has county court district of Birkenhead, xural deanery of been the burying pla{)e of that family, many of whom Wirral and archdeaconry and diocese of Chester. This are interred in the vault beneath: in the chapel are two place in the summer months is a favourite l'esort for altar tombs, one to Sir "Villiam Stanley kt. ob. r6r2, pleasure and picnic parties from Live11pool by ferry across and another, of alabaster, to Sir Rowland Stanley kt. his the river. The church of St. l\fary is an ancient edifice grandfather, ob. r613; here also is an inscribed marble of red sandstone, in the Early English and later styles, tablet to Sir Thomas Stanley Massey-Stanley hart. or