MARBURY-CUM-QUOISLEY. 463 DIRECTORY.] CHESHIRE. WIGL.AND. Healey Wm. shopkpr. Higher Wych STOCKTOX. • Davies Sarah Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Taylor Miss Hinton Dicken, farmer, Higher Wych Mottershead Thomas, cowkeeper Sto~kton hall Appleby Arthur, farmer Dodd James, wheelwright Evans Jn. Fras. farmer, Wigland hall Penk Margt. (Mrs.), farmer, Field ho Evans Wm. cowkpr. Mount Pleasant Simcock Robt. farmer, Higher Wycb WYCHOUGH. Taylor Martha (Miss), farmer Done Thomas, farmer, Manor farm Faulkner Joseph, cowkeeper Thomas John, farmer Healey Thos. horsekpr. Higher Wych :MARBURY is a. to.wnship in the parish of Great Bud­ in extent, called " Marbury Mere," well stocked with worth, 1l miles north from Northwich ~tation on the fish. The Manor in the reign 'Df Henry Ill. was the Cheshire Lines railway, in the Northwich division of the property and residence of the ancient family of Mer­ county, Bucklow hundred, union and county court district bury, or Marbury, which became extinct on the death of Northwich and petty sessional division of Northwich, of !Richard Mar bury esq. in 1684; in 1708 it was and is intersected by the Trent and Mersey canal. purchased under a decree of the Court of Chancery In this township is a Small Pox Hospital, originally by Richard (Savage), 4th Earl Rivers, of Rock Savage, erected by the Northwich Rural District Council, but whose daughter Elizabeth brought it in marriage to in 1909 it was taken over by the Nort·hwich Rural and James, 4th Earl of Barrymore; it next passed to the Northwich, Middlewich and Winsford Urban Hospital Earl's second son, the Hon. Richard Barry M.P. for District Committee. Marbury Hall, the property and Wigan, and on his decease without issue, 23rd Nov. occasional residence of Lord Barrymore P.C. (Ireland), 1787, to his nephew, James Hugh ,Smith-Barry esq. of is a mansion of brick with stone facings, approached Fota Island, Queenstown, Ireland (d. 1857). The Right from the east by a fine avenue of elm t.rees; the Hon. Lord Barrymore, of Fota Island, is ·lord of the picture gallery contains some splendid works of art manor and chief landowner. The area is 349 acres of by Antonio Canaletto, Gio Antonio Beltraffio; Salvator land and 45 of water; rateable value, £1,046; the popu­ Rosa, Francesco Bonifazio, Giacomo Robusti (Il. Tin­ lation in 19II was 5!. toretto), Velasquez, Vandyck, Rubens, G. and N. Le.tters through Northwich. Great Budworth is the Poussin and others. The grounds· slope down to the nearest money order & telegraph o:ffice, I~ mil~ erlge of a magnificent sheet of water, about 8o acres distant

1\f..ARBURY. Kinsey Herbert, farmer, Dairy farm Pox Hospital (Joseph Moreton B.Sc., . Northwich Rural & Northwich, M.D., Ch.B. medical officer) Barrymore Lord P.C., D.L., J.P. Mar­ Middlewich & Winsford Urban Hos­ ·woodroofe Harvey, miller (water), bury hall ; & 20 Hill st. London W pital District Committee's Small Marbury mill

MARBURY-CUM-QUOISLEY is a parish on the hills, is the residence of Bryan Davies Poole esq. J.P. who Shropshire border, containing the townships of Marbury­ is lord of the manor and the principal landowner: the cnm-Quoisley and Norbury, and is 3! miles south-west Hall was built by the late Domville Halsted Cudworth from Wrenbury railway station on the Crewe and Whit­ Poole esq. great-uncle of the present ()Wner. The Old church section of the London and North Western railway, Hall, which was a farm house, has been pulled down, 3 north from Whitchurch, 12 south-west from Crewe and a new homestead built more in the centre of the farm. station, 8 south-west from Nantwich and 5 east from The soil is of a peaty nature; subsoil, gravel. The land Malpas, iu the Eddisbury division of the county, Audlem is principally in pasture, but oats, wheat and roots are division of t.he Nantwich hundred, Whitchurch union and also grown. The area of the township is 2,111 acres of county court district, and petty sessional division of land and 55 of water; rateable value, £3,891; the Nantwich, rural deanery of Nantwich and archdcaconry population in I9II was-township, 317; ecclesiastical and diocese of Chester. The Ellesmere and Chester canal parish, .55 1. passes through the parish. The church of St. Michael Parish Clerk, • is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular Post & Telegraph Office.-Mrs. ·Sarah Thomas, sub-post­ style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, • south porch and! an embattled tower on the south side, mistress. Letters arrive from Whitchurch (Salop) at with pinnacles and containing a clock and 6 bells : the 6.55 a. m. & 4.10 p.m. to callers only; dispatched at stained east window is a memorial to Captain William 10.55 a.m. & 6.25 p.m. Wrenbury is the nearest Poole, 23-rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was killed at the Inoney order office, 3 miles distant second attack on the Redan, Sebastopol, 8 Sept. 1855. Endowed School, erected in I87o, for I33 children; aged 20: the chancel was rebuilt in 1824: the church was average attendance, 93; the endowment, amounting restored in 1891 at a cost of over £z,soo, and now affords to £1 Ss. yearly, is derived from various charities; 150 sittings. The register dates from the year r538. The· Ernest Wood, master living is a vicarage, net yearly value £zoo, with 9~ acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Earl Brownlow P.C. QUOISLEY is about a mile west. Marley Green is a and held since 1898 by the Rev. James Lewthwaite Vin­ mile east; Hurst Green, a mile north. Quoisley meres cent B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The charities for cover 21 acres. distribution amount to about £37 yearly. The village is pleasantly situated and commands very picturesque views NORBURY is a township, a mile north from Marbury, in every direction, and its quaint and remarkably clean and has a W esleyan chapel and a Congregational chapel, half-timbered houses, and adjacent meres or lakes, erected in 1868. The Marquess of Cholmondeley P.C. is lord of the· manor and the principal landowner. The covering altogether 32 acres, greatly increase its attractive­ area is 1,553 acres; rateable value, £2,568; the popu­ ness, and it is noted also for the salubrity of the air and consequent longevity of its residents. Marbury mere lation in 1911 was· 322. covers 26 acres. Marbury Hall, a handsome mansion, · Letters ·by foot post from Whitchurch (Salop). Wren­ occupying an eminence near the village, overlooking the burv is the nearest. money order office & Marbury the Mere and commanding extensive views of the Cheshire nearest telegraph office

MARBURY. Lakin Abraham Overton, farmer, &/ NORBURY. PRIVATE :RESIDENTS. sec. to the . ":hitchurch Dairy' Kirby Robert, Rose cottage Poole Bryan Davies J.P. Marbury hall Farn1ers' .Assoc1atwn, Bank farm Lewis Richard, farmer, Hadley hall Vincent Rev. .Tames Lewthwaite B..!.. COMMERCIAL. Vicarage Lightfoot William, coal merchant, CQMMERCIAL. Poole's siding Arthur Joseph, farmer, The Mount Bebbington Percy, frmr.Cross Hill fm Lloyd Sampson, wheelwright Betley George, shopkeeper · Boffey Wm. farmer, Marbury Hayes Simmons James,gamekeeper to Bryan Burgess William, farmer, Lower hall Boffey ·wm. jun. farmer, Marley hall Davies Poole esq. J.P Chesters Thomas, farmer Cliff Waiter, cycle maker, repairer & Sutton Robert Whalley, farmer Drinkwater Edwd. frmr. Swa.nna Grn -:lealer; machines for hire ; agent Thomas Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper & Drinkwater George, jun. farmer, for the Premier, Fleet &c.; satis­ sub-postmistress Higher hall faction in all branches of the trade Wainwright Jn. fanner, Hollyhurst Drinkwater George · Evan, farmer, guaranteed Windsor Joseph, shopkeeper Hanley park Clutton William, blacksmith Wood Jsph. (Mrs.), frmr. The Grange Eaton Thomas, farmer Dodd James, farmer, Hurst hall Edge Thomas, farmer Edwards Samuel, farmer Dodd Joseph, farmer, Marley lodge QUOISLEY. Dodd Thos. jun. frmr. Townley farm Green Roht. blcksmth. Swanna Gre.en Harding Elizabeth (Mrs.), Swan inn Hitchin John William, farmer Griffiths Thomas, cowkeeper Harding John, builder · Lewis John, farmer Harding J oseph, fM"mer