A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WITTON-CUM-TWAMBROOKS, a township and a chapelry in Great Budworth parish, Cheshire. The township lies on the river Dane, contiguous on the E to Northwich; includes a large suburb of that town; and has a public institution and reading room, a fine early English church, two Methodist chapels, an endowed grammar-school with £270 a year, national schools, charities £25, two breweries, an iron and brass foundry, flat and boat-building establishments, and numerous salt-works. Acres, 588. Real property, £15,296; of which £80 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 3,493; in 1861, 3,677. Houses, 817. The manor belonged to the Vernons, and passed, in 1757, to the Leycesters.—The chapelry includes Northwich township, which has a head post-office and a r. station. Acres of the chapelry, 788. Pop., 4,867. Houses, 1,046. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £168.* Patron, the Rev. R. Greenall.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Great Budworth AP/Tn/CP Cheshire AncC |
| Place: | Witton |
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