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Tierney Thomas M.D. &; Ch.B.Vict., L.R.C.P.Lond., Watson James M. manager of the M·anohester & Liver­ M.R.O.S.Eng. surgeon, Towercroft, Church lane pool District Bank & treasurer to the Urban District Tomlinson George, farmer, Booth cote Council, Stockport road Torkington 1\fisses, farmers, Sand Pit farm Wheeldon James, beer retailer & shopkpr.St.Martin's rd Turner Aaron, shopkeeper, I9 Ghadwick street Wheelton Charles, farmer, Hill top Turner James Swann, butcher, 82 Church lane White William Edward, supt. Wesleyan & General

Turner James Thomas, insurance agent, 43 Hollins lane Assurance .Societv,• Church lane Turner Thomas, grocer IJ, & draper Ig, Stockport road White William G. farmer, Turf lea Tymm Waiter, jeweller, 49 Stockport road Williamson James, farmer, Ridge end Vernon James Henry, cabinet maker, 55 Stockport road Williamson James, grocer & beer retailer, Hawk green Vessey Brothers, builders, St. Martin's road Wood Benjamin, farmer, Carrington barn Wadsworth Eli, farmer, Ridge farm Wood Eli, farmer, High lane Wadsworth Jame-s, farmer, Plucks ·bridge Wood John, blacksmith, .Stockport road Wait .&rthur E. teacher of music, Eureka, Church lane Wood Josiah, draper, Marple Bridge Walker Arthur, solicitor, 25 Market street Wood Samuel, fruitere:r, 106 Ohurch lane Walker William, blacksmith, I43 Stockport road Wood Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper, 147 Stockport road Ward Edith (Mrs.), baker, Io3 Church lane Wood S.arah Ann (Mrs.), milliner, I Market street Ward John James, plumber, 33 .Stockport :road Woodhouse Thomas, baker, rog Stockport road & Warren Henrv• William, seedsman florist, Hollins lane Wright G. & Sons Ltd. dyers & cleaners, r8 Market st ·waterhouse Edward, Jolly .Sailor P.H. Stockport road -:M:ARSTON is an important township and village on the manor and principal landowner. The soil is light; •the Trent and Mersey canal, I mile north-east from North­ .mbsoil, chiefly sand. The chief crops are wheat, oats, ·wich station on the Lines railway, ll.nd with part potatoes and turnips. The area is 78I acres of land -of Wincham was formed into an ecclesiastical parish and 6o of water; rateable value, £3,688; the population March rg, 1875, out of the of Great Budworth; in rgrr was, township, 807; ecclesiastical parish, I,:B2. -it is in the division of the county, hundred, In the period between I89I and Igor, the population •Union and county court district of Northwich, petty ses­ was reduced, mainly owing to the effects of subsidence sional division of Leftwich, rural deanery of caused by the local pumping for brine. Some 40 houses . and arch deaconry and diocese of . The church of have either given way or had to be taken down as :St. Paul, erected in 1874• is a plain edifice of brick in the being too unsafe to be tenantable. In the neighbour­ Early English style, from designs by Mr. Douglas, archi­ hood of the chief subsidence, the main road is so tect, of Chester, and consists of chancel with vestry and seriously affected that thousands of tons of cinders -organ chamber on the south side, nave, north aisle with have to be carted annually to maintain its level. porch and a low ·spire and turret containing one bell : i1here are 3Io sittings. The register dates from the year By Local Government Board Order No. 22,897 (March 1874· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £207, 24, I88g) a detached part of Marston was added to with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Wincham. ·Christ Church, Oxford, and held since I9I2 by the Rev. Parish Clerk, William Southern. .John Thomas Evans B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. 'The Church Hall was erected in Igo8. Here are several Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-William Anderson, sub-post­ maste·r. Letters arrive from Nort.hwich at 6.20 a.m. ~xtensive salt works and rock salt mines: that known as the " Marston Old Mine " is· 120 y·ard& in depth, & 3.50 p.m.; dispatched at Io.5 :a.m. & 7.ro p.m. on and contains an excavated area of 3·5 acres: in 1844 week days & at II. Io a.m. on sundays ~he late Emperor Nicholas of Rus.sia visited this mine with Wall Box, Four Lane Ends, cleared at ro a.m. & 6.50 the Royal Society of , on which occasion it was p.m. & I0.45.a.. m. on sunday splendidly illuminated with upwards of w,ooo lights, and Public Elementary Schools. a. banquet was provided at the bottom. In I854 Sir W. Hamilton, Sir J. Forbes, Dr. Whewell and other members Infants', erected, with teacher's residence, in I855, by of the British .Association paid a visit to this remarkable public subscription, on a site given by the late Lord mine, when it was again illuminated, and nearly I,ooo de Tabley people descended in one day to inspect its vast chambers. A new s-chool was erected in r8gr, at a cost of £I,sgo, for The [Marston Hall 'Mine, worked by the Salt Union 219 boys & girls & rzo infants; average attendance, Limited, is also in this township ; this is the largest mine 200 boys & girls & So infants; James Henry Williams, in the trade, having an excavated area of about 40 acres. master; Miss Janet Birtles, mistress The Hon. Lady Leighton-Warren, of Tabley HaLl, is lady of Police Station, Frederick Platt, constable Evans Rev. John Thomas B.A.(vicar), Burge.ss Martha (Mrs. ),coal merchant Rayner William, grocer Vicarage Davies Emily A. (Mrs.), beer retailer Riley Hugh, dairyman Eaton Thomas, farmer, Lane End frm Robinson John, Red Lion P.H COMMERCIAL. Farish John, farmer, Marston hall Salt Union Limited Anderson Wm. shopkpr. & post office Humphreys Arthur, shopkeeper Thompson Ingram & Sons, salt mfrs Boaler Mark, shopkeeper Newman Thomas, grocer

MARTHALL is a parish tormed in 1840 from the civil I distributed in money amongst the poor of the parish. · parishes of and , and comprising the Lord Egerton of Tatton is lord of t•he manor, and the townships of Marthall-cum- and Ollerton, Lewis Trustees are the principal landowners. The soil I mile west from railway station on the Cre.we is day; subsoil, sand. The chief crops aTe wheat, and .stockport section of the London and North Western p·otatoes and oats, and some land is in pasture. The railway and 3! miles south-east from Knutsford, on area of Marthall-cum-Warford township is I,799 acres; the road from Knutsford to , in tib.e Knuts- rateable value, £4,021; the population in 1911 was­ ford division of the county, eastern division of the hundred township, 524; ecclesiastical parish, 783, including 245 of Bucklow, petty sessional division of Bucklow, Bucklow inmates and 54