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CHESHIRE a 2

INDEX TO KELLY'S

CHESHIRE DIRECTORY PAGE

Acton 21 Acton (in Delamere), see

Weaverham 653 Acton'Grange,see ^^'alton 650 Adiington 23 Ads wood, see Cheadle ... 207 Agden, see BoUington,

nearAltrincham 184 Agden, see Tushingham-

cum-Grindley 643 Alcumlow, see Astbury 52 Alderley 23 Alderley Edge 24 AlderleyOver or Superior,

seeBirtles 183 Aldersey, see Coddington 272 Aldford 27 Alfred Dock, see Birken­

head 69 Allostock, see Lower

Peover 504 Alpraham and Alprabam

Green, see Tilstone Fearnall 639

Alsager 28 Altrincham,orAltringbm 30 Alvanley 45 Alvaston, see \A'orieston 679 Anderton, see Barn ton... 59 Antrobus 45 Apethome, see Hyde 376 Appleton, or Appleton

witb Hull 46 Appleton Cross.seeApple-

ton ... . 46 Appleton Thorn, see

Appleton 46 Arclid, see Sandbach ... 539 Amfield, see Tintwistle 642 Arrowe, see Woodchurch 677 Ashley 46 Ashton, see AshtonHayes 51 Ashton-upon-Mersey 47 AshtonHayes 51 Astbury, or Xewbold Ast­

bury 52 Astle, seeChelford.; 212 Astmoor, see Halton 347 Aston & Aston Heath, see

Wrenbury - cum - Frith 681 Aston-by-Budworth 52 Aston-by-Sutton 53 Aston Grange, see Aston

by-Sutton S3 Aston - juxta - Mondrum,

seeWorleston 679 Audlem 54 Austerson, see Acton 21 Bache, or Bach 56 Backford 56 Baddiley 57 Baddington, see Acton... 21 Baguley 57 Balderton, see Doddleston 309 Balterley (Staffs), see

Barthomley 60 Barnshaw, see Goostrey 339 Barnston 58 Barnton 59 Barrel! Well, see Chester 214 Barrow 59 Barrow Little.see Barrow 60 Barthomley 60 Bartingtun, see Little

Leigh 407

PAGE Barton, seeFarndon 332 Basford, see Weston-by

Crewe 655 Batherton, or Bartherton,

see Wybunbury 682 Bebington, & Higher, &

Lower 61 Beeston, see Bunbury ... 201 Betchton *. 64 Bexton, see Toft 643 Bickerton 65 Bickley, & Bickley Town­

ship 66 Bidston-cum-Ford 67 Birches, see Lostock

Gralam 420 Birkenhead 68 Birtles 183 Blackden, see Goostrey

cum-Barnshaw 339 Blacon-cum-Crabwall ... 184 Blakenhall, see Wybun

bury 682 Bollin Fee, see Wilmslow 663 BoUington, near Altrin

cham 184 BoUington,near Prestbury 185 BoUington Cross, see Bol-

lington 185 BoothGreen,seeAdlington 23 Bosden, see Hazel Grove-

cum-Bramhall 351 Bosley 187 Bostock, see Davenham 302 Boughton—Great i Bowdon 189 Bradfield Green, see

Leighton 408 Bradley, see Frodsham... 336 Bradley, or Bradeley, see

Tushingham cum -Grindley 644

Bradwall, or Bradwell,3ee Elworth 331

Bramhall, or Bramall, see Hazel Grove-cum-Bramhall 352

Bredbury 192 Brereton-cum-Smethwick 194 Bridge,Trafford,seePlem-

stall 506 Bridgemere, see Dodding-

ton 308 Brighton—New 480 Brighton—Upper,seeNew

Brighton 480 Brimstage, see Thornton-

Hough 636 Brindley, see Acton 21 Brinksway- cum-Cheadle

Heath, see Stockport... j;68 Brinnington, see Stock

port 570 Broadbottom, see Mott-

ram 466 Broadheath, see Altrin-

cham 31 Bromborough 195 Bromborough Pool, see

Bromborough 195 Bromball, seeVVrenburj-

cum-Frith 680 Brookhouse Green, see

Smallwood 553

PAGE Broom Edge, see Lymm 421 Broomhall, seeWrenbur y-

cum-Frith 680 Broomhill, see Barrow... 60 Brownlow, see Astbury... 52 Broxton, see Bickerton... 65 Bruen Stapleford, see

Tarvin 632 Bruera,seeChurtonHeath 271 Bucklow Hill, see Rost-

herne 518 Budworth—Great 197 Budworth—Little 198 Buerton, see Aldford, 28 ;

& also see Audlem 54 Buglawton 199 Bulkeley, see Bickerton... 65 Bunbury 20c Burford Lane,see Lymm 42 i Burland, see Acton 21 Burleydam 203 Burley Dam, see Wren-

bury-cum-Frith 680 Burton 203 Burton-by-Tarvin, see

Tarvin 632 Burwardsley 204 Butley, see Prestbury ... 510 Byley 204 Caldecott, see Shocklach 551 Caldy, see West Kirby... 392 Caldy Grange, see West

Kirby 392 Calvcley, see Bunbury... 201 Capenhurst 205 Gapesthorne 205 Garden, see Tilston 638 Garrbrook.seeStalybridge 558 Garrington 205 Gastle Northwich, see

Northwich 493 Caughall, see Backford... 56 Chadkirk, see Romiley... 516 Cheadle 206 Cheadle Bulkeley, see

Cheadle 207 Gheadle Heath, see

Cheadle, 206; also see Stockport 567

Cheadle Hulme, see Cheadle 207

Gheadle Moseley, see Gheadle 207

Gheckley-cum-Wrinehill, see Doddington 308

Chelford 212 Chester 213 Chester—New, see Sale 528 Ghidlow,seeTushingham-

cum-Grindley 644 Ghilder-Thornton, see

Hooton 367 Gho]mondeley,seeBickley 66 Gholmondeston, see

Worleston 679 Ghorley.seeAlderleyEdge 24 Chorley, see Bickley 67 Ghorlton-by-Backford ... 56 Ghorlton, see Malpas ... 448 Ghorlton, see Weston-

by-Crewe '. 655 Ghowley, see Coddington 272 Christ Church,seeHeaton

Norris 574

PAGE Chumston, see Worleston 679 Church Goppeuhall 270 ChurchHulme,seeHolmes

Chapel 364 Church Lawton, see

Lawton 405 Church Minshull 271 Church Shocklach, see

Shocklach 551 Churton, see Farndon ... 332 Ghurton-by-Aldford, see

Aldford 28 Churton Heath,or Bruera 271 Cinder Hill, see Odd Rode 514 Cis Green, see Astbury 52 Clarke Green,see Adiing­

ton 23 Clatterbridge, see Lower

Bebington 61 Claughton or Claughton-

cum-Grange, see Birk­enhead 72

Claverton, see Eccleston 321 Cliffe Lane,see Lymm... 421 Glifton or Kock Savage,

see Halton 347 Clive, see Middlewich ... 458 Glotton - Hoofield, see

Tarvin 632 Glutton, see Farndon 332 Coddington 272 Cogshall, see Great Bud­

worth 197 Comberbach, see Great

Budworth 197 Compstall or Compstall

Bridge 273 Congleton 274 Goole Pilate, see Acton... 21 Gotebrook, see Tarporley 629 Cotton, see Middlewich 462 Cotton, see Sandbach ... 539 Cotton Abbots, see

Ghristleton 269 Cotton Edmunds, see

Ghristleton 269 Crabwall, see Blacon 184 Cranage 282 Crewe 283 Crewe, Farndon 332 Grewe Green 299 Cross Street, see Ashton-

upon-Mersey 48 ; also Sale 528

Gross Town, see Knuts-ford 397

GrouchleyLane.seeLjTnm 421 Croughton 299 Crowley, see Great Bud­

worth 197 Crowton 299 Groxton, see Byley 204 Guddington, or Kyding-

ton, see Malpas 448 Guddington, see Weaver-

ham 653 Danebridge St. Paul, see

Northwich 492 Daresbnry 301 Damhall, see Winsford... 671 Davenham 302 Davenport, see Stockport 570 Davenport, see Swetten-

ham 626 Brooklands, see Sale 5281 Ghristleton 269. Dean Row, see Wilmslow 661

VI INDEX TO KELLY'S CBESHIRE DlREOrORY.

PAGE Delamere 304 Disley, or Disley Stanley 306 Dodcott - cum - Wilkesley

307 ; & see Wrenbury 680 Doddington 308 Dodd's Green, see Wren-

bury-cum-Frith 681 Dodleston, or Doddleston 309 Downs, see Sutton 625 Duckington,see Bickerton 65 Duddon, see Tarvin 632 Duke's Oak, see Brereton 195 Dukinfield 309 Dukinfield St. John, see

Stalybridge 554 Dunham-on-the-Hill 319 Dunham Massey 316 Dunham Town, see Dun­

ham Massey 317 Dunham Woodhouse, see

Dunham Massey 317 Dutton, see Little Leigh 407 Eanley Wood—Higher &

Lower, see Halton 347 East or Lower Float, see

Birkenhead 66 Eastham 319 Eaton 320 Eaton, see Davenham ... 302 Eaton, see Eccleston 321 Eaton, see Tarporley 629 Eccleston 321 Eddisbury, see Delamere 304 Edgar's Field.see Chester 220 Edge, see Malpas 449 Edgeiey, see Stockport... 568 Edgerley, see Aldford ... 28 Edleston, or Edlaston,

see Acton 21 Egerton, see Bickerton 65 Egerton Dock, see Bir­

kenhead 69 Eggbridge, see Waverton 652 Egremont 322 EUesmere Port 327 Elton, see Thornton-le-

Moors 637 Elton, see Warmingham 651 Elworth 331 Etchells, or Northen Et-

chells, see Northenden 490 Ettiley Heath, see Sand­

bach 539 Faddiley, see Acton 21 Fallibroome.seePrestbury 510 Farndon 331 Five Ashes, see Marlston

cum-Lache 452 Float—Lower or East &

West, see Birkenhead . 66 Flookersbrook, see New-

ton-by-Chester 4S8 Flowery Field, see Hyde 377 Ford, see Bidston 67 Foulk Stapleford, see

Hargrave 349 Four Lane Ends, see Til-

stone Fearnall 639 Frankby 332 Frith, see Wrenbury-

cum-Frith 680 Frodsham 333 Frodsham Bridge, see

Sutton Weaver, Aston-by-Sutton 53

Fulshaw, see Wilmslow 661 Furness Vale, see Disley,

306; alsoWhaley Bridge 656 Oatley '. 337 Gawsworth 338 Gayton, see Heswall 359 Gee Gross, see Hyde 376 Godley, see Hyde 376 Golbourne Bellow, see

Tattenhall 633 Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw 339 Gorseley Green, see Mar-

ton 458 (Torstage,8ee \\ 'eaverham 653 Gorstella, or Grostelle,

see Doddleston 309

PAGE Goulbourn - David, see

Handley 349 Grafton, see Tilston 638 Grange,or Caldy Grange,

see West Kirby 392 Grappenhall 340 Greasby, see Frankby ... 333 GreatBarrow,see Barrow 59 Great Boughton 188 Great Budworth 197 Great Float, see Birken­

head 69 Great Meols, see Hoy-

lake 369 Great Mollington, see

Backford 56 Great Moreton, see Ast­

bury 52 Great Neston, see Neston 477 Great Saughall,see Shot-

wick 551 Great Stanney, see Stoke 624 Great Sutton 626 Great Warford, see Al­

derley 24 Gresty, see Wybunbury 682 Grindley, see Tushing-

ham-cum-Grindley ... 643 Guilden Sutton,or Sutton

Guilden 341 Hack Green, see Acton.., 21 Hague (The), see Staly­

bridge 554 Hale 341 Hale Barns, see Hale 341 Hall Green,see Odd Rode 514 Halton, or Haul ton 346 Hampton, see Malpas ... 449 Handforth,or Handforth-

cmn-Bosden 347 Handley 348 Hankelow, see Audlem ... 54 Hapsford, see Dunham-

on-the-Hill 319 Hargrave,orFoulk Staple­

ford 349 Harrop, see Rainow 513 Hartford 350 Harthill 350 Haslington 351 Hassall & Hassall Green,

see Betchton 64 Hatherlow, see Bredbury 192 Hatherton, see Wybun­

bury 682 Hattersley, see Mottram 466 Hatton, see Waverton... 652 Hatton,near Warrington,

see Daresbury 300 Haughton, see Bunbury 201 Hazel Grove-cum-Bram-

hall 3SI Heatley Heath.see Lymm 421 Heaton Chapel,see Stock-

Port 577 Heaton Moor, see Stock-

Port 577 Heaton Norris, see Stock­

port 574 Helsby 358 Henbury-cum-Pexall ... 358 Henhull, see Acton 22 Heswall & Heswall-cum-

Oldfield 359 Heyhead, see Northen­

den 490 High Lane 362 High Legh, or High Leigh 406 Higher Bebington, see

Bebington 61 Hiffher Eanley Wood, see

Halton 347 Higher Hurdsfield, see

Hurdsfield 375 Higher Kinnerton, see

Dodleston 309 Higher Sutton.see Sutton 625 Higher Tranmere, see

Birkenhead 73 Higher ^\'hitley 659 Hockenhull, see T a r n n 632

PAGE Hollingworth 362 Hollow Moor Heath, see

Barrow 60 Holmes Chapel 364 Hoo Green, see Ros-

therne 518 Hoofield, see Tarvin 632 Hoole 365 Hoose, see Hoy lake 368 Hooton 367 Hope Green, see Adiing­

ton 23 Horton-bv-Malpas, see

Tilston". 638 Horton-cum-Peele, see

Ashton Hayes 51 Hough, see Wilmslow ... 661 Hough, see Wybunbury 682 Hough Green, see Ashley 47 Hough Green, see Marls-

ton-cum-Lache 452 Hoylake 368 Hull, see Appleton 46 Hulme Walfield 374 Hulse, see Lostock Gra­

lam 420 Hunsterson,see Dodding­

ton 308 Huntington, see Churton

Heath 272 Hurdsfield 375 Hurleston, see Acton 22 HurstGreen,seeMarbury-

cum-Quoisley 451 Huxley, see Hargrave ... 349 Hyde 375 Iddinshall 389 Ince 390 Inferior Whitley 659 Irby, see Woodchurch ... 677 JenkinGhapel,see Salters-

ford 537 Kekewick, or Keckwich,

see Daresbury 301 Kelsall 390 Kent Green, see Odd Rode 514 Kermincham,orKerming

ham, see Swettenham. 626 Kerridge, see BoUington,

near Prestbury 185 Kettleshulme,see Salters-

ford 537 Kinderton,seeMiddlewich 459 Kings Marsh, see Farndon 332 Kingsley 391 Kingswood, see Delamere 304 Kinnerton — Higher &

Lower, see Dodleston.. 309 Kirby—West 392 Knutsford 397 Knutsford Superior 398 Kydington, or Gudding­

ton, see Malpas 448 Lach Dennis, see Lostock

Gralam 420 Lache, see Marlston 452 Landican, see Wood

church 677 Lane—High 362 Lane Ends, see Sutton ... ^ 5 Langley, see Sutton 625 Larkton, or Larton, see

Bickerton 65 Larton, see West Kirby.. 392 Latchford 403 Latchford Without 403 Lawton,orGhurchLawton 405 Lea, see Backford 54 Lea, see Wybunbury 682 Lea-cum-Newbold,or Lea

Xewbold, see Clmrton Heath 272

Leasowe, see Moreton ... 464 Ledsham, see Capenhurst 205 Lease, see Byley 204 Leftwich, see North­

wich 494 Legh—High 406 Leigh-juxta - Bartington,

see Little Leigh 406

PAGE Leigh—Little 406 Leighton, see Neston 477 Leighton Chapel, see

Leighton - cum - Mins­hull 407

Leighton-cum - Minshull Vernon 4°?

Lindow, see Alderley Edge 25 Lingham, see Moreton ... 464 Liscard 408 Little Barrow, see Barrow 59 Little Budworth 198 Little Leigh 406 Little Meols, see Hoy-

lake 369 Little Mollington, see

Backford 56 Little Moreton, see Odd

Rode S'4 Little Neston, see Neston 477 Little Saughall, see Shot-

wick 552 Little Stanney, see Stoke 624 Little Sutton, see Hooton 367 Little Warford, see Mart-

hall 457 Littleton, see Ghristleton 270 Long Green, see Barrow 59 Longdendale,see Holling­

worth 363 Longdendale, see Wood-

head 678 Lostock Gralam 419 Lostock Green, see Los­

tock Gralam 420 Low Marple, see Marple 453 Lower Bebington, see

Bebington 6T Lower or East Float, see

Birkenhead 69 Lower Eanley Wood, see

Halton 347 Lower Hurdsfield, see

Hurdsfield 375 Lower Kinnerton, see

Dodleston 309 Lower Peover 503 Lower Tranmere, see

Birkenhead 73 Lower Walton,seeWalton 649 Lower Whitley 659 Lower Withington, see

Prestburv 510 Lower Wych, see Malpas 449 Lyme Handley,see Prest­

bury 510 Lymm 420 L>Tnm Booths, seeLymm 421 Macclesfield 424 Macclesfield Forest 446 Macefen,seeTushingham-

cum-Grindley 644 Malpas 447 Mauley, see Frodsham.. . 334 Marbury 451 Marbury-cum-Quoisley.. 451 Marley Green, see Mar­

bury-cum-Quoisley ... 451 Marlston - cum - Lache,

with Saltney 452 Marple & Marple—Low... 453 Marston 456 Marthall 457 Marton 457 Marton, or Merton, see

Whitegate 658 Massie, see Moreton 464 Matley, see Mottram ... 466 Meols—Great & Little,

see Hoylake 369 Mere, seeRostherne 518 MickleTraf¥ord,see Plem-

stall 506 Middleton Grange, see

Aston-by-Sutton 53 Middlewich 458 Millbrook, see Staly­

bridge "... 555 Millington, seeBollington,

nearAltrincham 184

INDEX TO KELLY'S CHESHIRE DiREcroRy. V l l

PAGE Milton, see Weaverham.. 653 Minshull—Church 271 Minshull Vernon, see

Leighton 408 Mobberley 462 Mollington — Great &

Little, see Backford ... 56 Mondrum, see Worleston 679 Monks Coppenhall, see

Crewe 283 Monksheath.see Alderley 23 Moor Park, see Hoole 365 Moore, or Moor,8eeDaTes-

bury 301 Mooresbarrow -with-Par-

me, see Middlewich ... 459 Moreton 464 Moreton-cum- Alcumlow,

or Great Moreton, see Astbury 52

Moreton - cum-Lingham, see Bidston-cum-Ford.. 67

Moreton—Great, see Ast­bury 52

Moreton—Little, see Odd Rode 514

Morley, see Wilmslow ... 662 Morpeth & Morpeth

Branch Dock, see Birkenhead 69

Moss Brow, see Warbur ton 650

Moss Side, see Halton ... 347 Mossley (Lanes) 464 Mossley & Mossley Moss,

see Congleton 274 Moston 465 Moston,see Warmingham 651 Mottram - in - Longden

dale 465 Mottram St. Andrew, see

Prestbury 510 Mouldsworth, see Ashton

Hayes 51 Moulton 467 Mow Cop, see Odd Rode 515 Mutlow, see Marton 458 Nantwich 467 Ness, see Neston 477 Neston—Great & Little... 477 Neston-cum-Parkgate ... 477 Nether Alderley, see

Alderley 23 Nether Knutsford, see

Knutsford 397 Nether Tabley, or Tabley

Inferior 627 Netherpool, see EUesmere

Port 328 Netherton, see Frodsham 336 New Brighton & Upper

Brighton 480 New Ferry, see Birkenhead 73 New St. George, see Staly­

bridge 554 Newbold Astbury, or

Astbury, see Astbury... 52 Newchurch, see White

gate 658 NewhalljSee Lostock Gra-

]am,42o; also seeWren-bury-cum-Frith 680

Newton, by Middlewich.. 458 Newton, see Prestbury... 510 Newton,or Newton Moor,

see Hyde 377 Newton-by-Chester 488 Newton - by - Daresbury,

see Daresbury 301 Ne wtOL -by-Frodsham, see

Kingsley 391 Newton-by«MaIpa8 449 Newton-by-Tattenhall,see

Tattenhall 633 Newton-cum-Larton, see

West Kirby 392 Newtown, see Disley 306 Noctorum, see Wood­

church 677

PAGE Norbury, see Marbury-

cnm-Quoisley, 451; & see Hazel Grove-cum-Bramhall 352

Norley 489 Norris Bank, see Stock­

port 575 North Reddish, see Stock­

port 576 North Rode 514 North Seacombe, see Sea-

combe 543 Northen Etchells, see

Northenden 490 Northenden 489 Northwich „ 491 Norton, see Halton 347 Oakhanger Moss, see

Haslington 351 Oakmere, see Delamere 305 Occlestone, or Occleston,

see Middlewich 450 Odd Rode 514 Offerton &Torkington,see

Stockport, 570; & Hazel Grove-cum-Bramhall.. 352

Old Dock Sill, see Birken­head 69

Old Pale, see Eddisbury, Delamere 304

Old St. George, see Staly­bridge 554

Old Withington,see Chel­ford 212

Oldcastle, see Malpas ... 449 Oldfield, see Dunham

Massey 317 Oldfield, see Heswall 359 Ollerton, sea Marthall... 457 Onston, see Crowton 299 Oscroft, see Tarvin 631 Onghtrington, see Lymm 421 Oulton Lowe, see Little

Budworth 199 Outwood, see Stockport

Etchells, Gatley 338 Over, see Winsford 669 Over Alderley, see Birtles 183 Over Knutsford, see

Knutsford 398 Over Peover, or Superior 505 Over Tabley, see Tabley

Over 627 Overchurch, see Upton

(near Birkenhead) 644 Overpool, see EUesmere

Port 328 Overton, see Frodsham... 336 Overton, see Malpas 449 Oxton, see Birkenhead ... 72 Parkgate, see Neston 477 Parme, see Middlewich... 459 Partington 503 Peckforton, see Bunbury 201 Pensby, see Barnston ... 58 Peover Eye, see Wincham 668 Peover Inferior,seeLower

Peover 504 Peover—Lower 503 Peover Nether, see Lower

Peover 503 Peover Superior, see Over

Peover 505 Pepper Street, see Apple-

ton 46 Pexall, see Henbury 359 Pickmere, see Great Bud­

worth 197 Picton, or Pickton, see

Plemstall 506 Pikelow, see Marton 458 Plemstall, or Plemonstall 506 Plumbley, see Low. Peover 504 Pointon, see Poynton 507 Pool—Nether & Over, see

EUesmere Port 328 Poole, see Worleston 679 Port Sunlight, see Birken­

head 73 Portwood, see Stockport 56S PottShrigley 506

PAGE Ponlton, see Pulford 512 Pooltou-cum-Seacombe... 544 Poulton-cumrSpital, see

Bebington 61 Poynton or Pointon 507 Prenton 508 Prestbury 509 Preston Brook, see Dares­

bury 301 Preston-on-the-Hill, see

Daresbury 301 Pryors Hayes, see Tarvin 632 Puddington, see Burton.. 203 Pulford 512 Quoisley, see Marbury ... 451 Raby, seeThorntonHough 636 Radnor, see Hulme Wal-

field 374 Radway Green, see Bar­

thomley 60 Rainow 512 Ravenscroft, see Byley.... 204 Reddish, see Lymm 421 Reddish, see Stockport... 576 Reed's Mere, see Sidding-

ton 552 Ridley, see Bunbury 201 Ringway 513 Rock Ferry, see Birken­

head 73 Rock Savage, see Halton 347 Rode Heath, see OddRode 514 Rode North, see North

Rode 514 Rode Odd, see Odd Rode 514 Romiley 516 Roodee, see Chester 220 Rope, see Wybunbury ... 682 Rostherne 517 Rowton, see Ghristleton.. 270 RowtonMoor,seeGhristle-

ton 270 Rudheath, see Davenham 303 Rudheath, see Goostrey-

cum-Barnshaw 339 Runcorn 519 Rushton, see Tarporley... 630 Saighton, or Saigton, see

Churton Heath 272 St. Cross, see Knutsford 397 St. Mary Magdalene's,

seeAshton-upon-Mersey 47 Sale 527 Saltersford, or Jenkin

Chapel 537 Salt Marsh, see Burton... 203 Saltney, see Marlston'

cum-Lache 452 Sandbach 538 Sandbach Heath, see

Sandbach 539 Sandiway,seeWeaverham 653 SandleHeath,see Alderley 23 Saughall — Great, see

Shotwick 551 Saughall — Little, see

Shotwick 552 Sau ghallMassey, orMassie,

see Moreton 464 Scholar Green, see Odd

Rode 514 Schools Hill, see Cheadle 207 Seacombe 543 Sevenoaks, see Antrobus 45 Shadow Moss, see North­

enden 489 Sharston Green, see

Northenden 490 Shavington -cum-Gresty,

see Wybunbury 682 Shining Tor, see Maccles­

field Forest 447 Shipbrook,or Shipbrooke,

see Davenham 303 Shocklach 550 Shocklach Church, see

Shocklach 551 Shocklach Oviatt, see

Shocklach 551 Shotwick 551 Shotwick Park 552

PAGE Shurlach, see Davenham 303 Shutlingslow, see Wild-

boarclough 447 Siddington 552 Sinderland, see Dunham

"' ssey 317 Smallwood 553 Smethwick-cum-Brereton 194 Snelson, see Chelford 212 Somerford, see Astbury 52 Somerford Booths, see

Hulme Walfield 374 Soss Moss, see Alderley... 23 Sound, or Sooiid, see

Wrenbury-cum-Frith.. 680 South Seacombe, see

Seacombe 543 Spital, see Bebington ... 61 Spital Boughton, see

Chester 218 Spring Hill, see Birken­

head 69 Sproston, see Middle­

wich 459 Spurstow, see Bunbury... 201 Stalybridge 554 Stamford Bridge, see

Barrow 60 Stanilands, see Wilm­

slow 663 Stanlow, see EUesmere

Port 328 Stanlow Point, see Stan-

low, EUesmere Port ... 328 Stanney — Great &

Little, see Stoke 624 Stanthorne 567 Stapeley, see Wybun­

bury 683 Statham, see Lymm ... 421 Stayley St. Paul's, see

Stalybridge 554 Stockham, see Halton.... 347 Stockport 567 Stockport Etchells, see

Gatley 338 Stockton, see Malpas 449 Stockton Heath 622 Stoke, or Stoak 623 Stoke, see Acton 22 Storeton, see Bebington 61 Stretton 624 Stretton, see Tilston 638 Stublach, see Byley 204 Styal, see Wilmslow 663 Superior or Over Peover 505 Superior Whitley 659 Sutton 625 Sutton, see Middlewich... 459 Sutton—Great 626 Sutton Guilden 341 Sutton Higher,seeSutton 625 Sutton — Little, see

Hooton 367 Sutton Weaver,see Aston-

by-Sutton S3 Swanlow, see Winsford... 671 Swettenham 626 Talbey Inferior, sec

Nether Tabley 627 TableyNether, seeNether

Tabley 627 Talbey Superior, or Over 627 Tarporley 628 Tarvin 631 TattenhaU 633 Tatton, see Rostherne ... 518 Taxal 634 Taxmcre, see Sandbach 538 Tetton, see Warmingham 651 ThelwaU 635 Thingwall, see Wood­

church 677 Thorns Green, seeAshley 47 Thornton Childer, see

Hooton 367 Thornton-Hough 635 Thornton-le-Moors 636 Threapwood 637 Thurlwood, see Old Rode 514 Thurstaston 637

M i l INDEX TO KELLY S CHESHIRE DIRECTORY

PAGE Tilston 633 Tilstone Fearnall 639 Timperley 639 Tintwistle 642 Tittenley (Shropshire),

see Audlem 55 Tiverton, see Tilstone

Fearnall 639 Toft 643 Torkington, see Hazel

Grove - cum -Bramhall 353 Tranmere,see Birkenhead 73 Tushingham-cum-Grind-

ley 643 Twambrooks, see North­

wich 492 Twemlow, see Goostrey-

cum-Barnshaw 340 Tytherington, see Prest­

bury 510 Upper Brighton, see New

Brighton 480 Upper Whitley 659 Upton, or Overchurch

(near Birkenhead) 644 Upton (near Chester) ... 645 Upton, see Prestbury 510 Utkinton, see Tarporley.. 630 Vicars Cross, see Ghristle­

ton 270 Walgherton, or Walker-

ton, see Wybunbury... 683 Walkerton, see Wybun­

bury 683 Wall HiU, see Astbury ... 52 Wallasey 646

PAGE Wallasey Dock, see Bir­

kenhead 69 Wallasey Pool,see Birken­

head 69 Wallerscoat, or Wallers-

cote, see Weaverham... 653 Walton 649 \A'alton Inferior, see Wal­

ton 649 Warburton 650 \\ 'ardle, or WardhuU, see

Bunbury 201 Warford—Great, see Al­

derley 24 Warford — Little, see

Marthall 457 Warmingham 651 Waverton 652 Weast Heath, see Congle­

ton 275 Weaver, see Winsford, or

Weever 671 Weaverham 652 Werneth, see Compstall 273 \Aervin 654 West Float, see Birken­

head 69 West Kirby 392 Weston-by-Crewe 654 Weston Point, see Wes-

ton-bj'-Runcorn 655 Weston-bj'-Runcorn 655 Wettenhall, or Wetenhall 656 \\'haley, see Whaley

Bridge 656 Whaley Bridge 656

' PAGE \\ 'harton, see Wins­

ford 671 Whatcroft with Ship-

brook,see Davenham... 303 Wheelock 657 Whitby, see EUesmere

Port 329 AVbite Nancy,see BoUing­

ton, near Prestbury ... 185 Whitegate 658 \^'hiteley Green, see Ad­

iington 23 W'hitley—Lower& Higher 659 Wichaugh, or Wychough,

see Malpas 449 Wiglaiid, see Malpas 449 Wildboarclough 447 Wilderspool 622 Wilksley, or Wilkesley,

see Dodcott 307 Willaston 660 Willaston, see Wybun­

bury 683 WiUington 660 Wilmslow 660 Wimbolds Trafford, see

Thornton-le-Moors 637 Wimboldsley, or Wim-

bersley, see Middlewich 459 Wincham 668 Wincle, or Winkel 669 Winnington, see North­

wich. . . . 494 Winsford 669 WirswaU 676 Wistaston 676

PAGE Withington — Lower, see

Prestbury 510 Withington — Old, see

Chelford 212 Witton, see Northwich... 492 Witton-cum-Twambrooks,

see Northwich 492 Wood Lanes,seeAdUngton 23 Woodbank, see Shotwick 552 Woodchurch 677 Woodcott, see Wrenbury-

cum-Frith 680 Woodford 678 Woodhead, or Longden­

dale 678 Woodhey, see Bebington 63 Woodhouses.see Dunham

Massey 317 Woodhouses, see Frod­

sham 337 AVo()dLanes,seeAdlington 23 Woodley, see Bredbury... 192 Woodside,see Birkenhead 68 Woodside, see Wettenhall 656 Woolstanwood, see Nant­

wich 470 Worleston 678 Worth, see Poynton 507 Wrenbury-cum-Frith ... 680 Wrenbury Frith,see Wren­

bury-cum-Frith 680 Wrinehill, see Doddington 308 Wybunbury 681 Wychough, see Malpas... 449 Yeardsley - cum-Whaley,

see Whaley Bridge 656

LIST OF THE

PRINCIPAL SEATS IN CHESHIRE With Reference to the Places under which they will be found in this Volume

PAGE Abbots Moss, Hon. Mrs. Gholmondeley, see Marton,

Whitegate 659 Adiington hall, Mrs. Legh, see Adiington 23 Agden hall, Oswald G. Moseley esq. see Agden BoUington

(nr. Altrincham) 184 Alderley park. Lord Sheffield p . c , D . L . , J . P see Alderley 23 Aldersey hall, Hugh (Aldersey esq.B. A.,j.p.see Coddington 272 Appleton haU,Thomas Hy.Lyon esq.D.i..,j.p.seeAppleton 46 Ardeme haU, Earl of Haddington K.T. , J . P . see Eaton,

Tarporley 629 Arley hall. Piers Egerton-Warburton esq. D.L. , J . P . see

Aston-by-Budworth 52 Arrowe haU, Thomas G. Williamson esq. see Arrowe,

Woodchurch 677 Ashbrook towers, Charles Frederick Goryndon Lux-

moore esq. J . P . see Church Minshull 271 Ashton Hayes, Ernest Johnson esq. J . P . see Ashton

Hayes 51 Astle haU,Lieut.-Col. George Dixon D.L.,j.p.see Chelford 212 Aston haU, John Sutherland Harmood-Banner esq.

M.P., D.L., J.p. see Aston-by-Sutton 53 Aston lodge, Arthur Hervey Talbot esq. J . P . see Aston-

by-Sutton S3 Bache hall. Major John Macgillycuddy, see Bache 56 Backwood haU, Mrs. Rathbone, see Leighton, Neston... 477 Bagstones, Miss Booth, see Wincle 669 Barrowmore hall, Hugh Lyle Smyth esq. D.L. , J . P . see

Barrow 60 Beeches (The), William Sloane, see Moore, Daresbury 301 Beechwood, Frederick L. Steele esq. J . P . see Lymm 421 Belmont hall, Roscoe Biunner esq. J .P . see Great

Budworth 197 Bidston court, John Lever Tillotson esq. see Bidston-

cum-Ford 67 Birtles hall,John Brooks Close-Brooks esq. J.P.see Birtles 183 Birtles Old haU, Edwin H. Story esq. see Birtles 183 Bolesworth castle, George Barbour esq. M.A., D.L., J .P .

see Broxton, Bickerton 65 Bostock hall. Col. Charles Hosken France-Hayhurst

D.L., J.p. see Bostock, Davenham 302 Boughton hall, James Garret t Frost esq. J . P . see Great

Boughton 188 BramaU hall, Chas. Henry Nevill esq. J . P . see BramhaU,

Hazel Grove 352 Brereton haU, John Moir esq. J . P . see Brereton 195 Bromborough hall. Sir William Bower Forwood D.L. ,

J.p. see Bromborough 196 frookside, Gapt. John Kennedy J . P . see Arclid,Sandbach 542 Broxton Lower hall. Lord Arthur Hugh Grosvenor D.L. ,

J.p. see Broxton, Bickerton 65 Broxton Old hall. Lady Henrietta Grey-Egerton, see

Broxton, Bickerton 65 Buglawton hall, Joseph Maghull Yates esq. K.C. see

Buglawton 199 Burton manor, Henry Neville Gladstone esq. J . P . see

Burton 203 Caldy manor, Alexander Percy Eccles esq. see West

Kirby 392 •Calveley hall, John Julius Jersey deKnoop esq. J . P . see

Calveley, Bunbury 201 Capenhurst hall, Richard Taswell Richardson esq.

B.A., J.p. see Capenhurst 205 Gapesthorne hall, Lieut.-Col. \\'illiam Bromlej-Daven-

port D.S.O., D.L., J.p. see Gapesthorne 205 Garden hall. Colonel George Lionel Holdsworth, see

TUston 638 Carlettpark, Rev. Wm. Edward Torr M.A. see Eastham 320 C'assia lodge, Arthur Reiss esq. see Marton, ^^•hitegate 659 •Castle park, Misses Wright, see Frodsham 334 Cedars (The;, James Maddock esq. J . P . see Alsager 28 Cherry hill, Samuel Henry .^andbach esq. M.A., J . P . see

Guddington, Malpas 448 Cholmondeley caslle,Marquess of Gholmondeley p . c , D . L .

see Bickley 66

PAGE Ghorlton hall, John D'Arcy Hartley esq. see Ghorlton,

Malpas 448 Ghorlton hall, William Henderson Walker esq. see

Ghorlton-by-Backford 56 Ghristleton hall, Mrs. Pitcairn Campbell, see Ghristleton 270 Claughton Manor house, Thomas Hughes Jackson

esq. J.p. see Claughton, Birkenhead 72 Combermere Abbey, Katherine C. Duchess of West­

minster, see Dodcott-cum-Wilkesley 307 Cranage haU,WilliamOswald Carver esq.J.p.seeCranage 282 Grewe haU, Earl of Grewe p.c. see Grewe Green 299 Crewe-hill, Harry Barnston esq. M.A., M.P . , J . P . see

Farndon 331 Dale (The), Reginald Potts esq. see Moston 465 Dale Fords, Harry Dewhurst esq. J . P . see Marton,

Whitegate 659 Daresbury hall, Charles Herbert Tinsley esq. see Dares­

bury 300 Damhall hall, William Henry Verdin esq. D.L. , J . P . see

Damhall, Winsford 671 Davenham hall, Russell Allen esq. D.L. , J . P . see

Davenham 302 Davenport hall, Lt.-Col. Robt. Fras. Gartside-Tipping,

C.B., J.p. see Davenport, Swettenham 626 Delamere house, Hugh Edward Wilbraham esq. J . P .

see Guddington, Weavenham 653 Doddington hall, Sir Delves Louis Broughton hart, J . P

see Doddington 308 Dorfold hall, Henry James Tollemache esq. D.L. , J . P .

see Acton 21 Dunham Massey hall. Countess of Stamford, see

Dunham Massey 317 Dutton lodge, Charles Maclver esq. see Little Leigh... 407 Eastham house, J. Herbert Vernon esq. see Eastham... 320 Eaton hall. His Grace the Duke of Westminster, Lord

Lieut, see Eccleston 321 Eaton hall, Lieut.-Col. John Coutts Antrobus J . P . see

Eaton 320 Edge hall, Francis WoUey-Dod, see Edge, Malpas 449 Elms (The), Henry Charles Burder esq. J .P . see Acton

Grange, Walton 650 Erwoodhall, Mrs. Gosselin-Grimshaw, see Taxal 635 Frankby hall. Sir Thomas Bland Royden bart. D.L. , J . P .

see Frankby 332 Gayton hall, Mrs. Catherine Duncan, see Heswall 360 Grappenhall hall, Francis Aylmer Frost esq. J . P . see

Grappenhall 340 Hampton hall, WilldingWillding-Jones esq. see Gampton,

Malpas 449 HarehUl, R. W. Douglas Phillips-Brocklehurst esq. J . P .

see Alderley Over, Birtles 183 Harewood lodge. Col. William Sidebottom V.D., J.p.see

Broadbottom, Mottram 466 Haughton haU, Ralph Brocklebank esq. D.L. , J .P . see

Haughton, Bunbury 201 Heawood hall, Noel Lee esq. see Nether Alderley 24 Hefferston grange, Isidor Frankenburg esq. see

Weaverham 653 Henbury hall, William Walter Brocklehurst esq. see

Henbury-cum-Pexall 359 Heyes (The), Joseph Charlton Parr esq. D.L. , J . P . see

Grappenhall 340 High Legh hall, Lt.-Gol. Hubert Cornwall Legh J . P .

High Legh 406 Highfields, Charles Walford Kellock esq. see Buerton,

Audlem 54 HiU Bark, Mrs. Smith, see Frankby 332 Hill End house, George John Chapman esq. see

Mottram-in-Longdendale 465 Hoole hall, Mrs. Arthur Potts, see Hoole 365 Ince haU, Mrs. Park-Yales, see Ince 390 Jodrell hall, Egerton Leigh esq. D.L. , J . P . seeTwemlow,

Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw 340

LIST OF TBE PKINCIPAL SEATS IN CHESHIRE.

Kermincham lodge, Charles Sumner Hoare esq. J . P . see Kermincham, Swettenham 626

Lee hall, Mrs. Greg,see Mottram St. Andrew, Prestbury 510 Littleton, Samuel Sidebottom esq. see Ghristleton 270 Lyme hall, Lord Newton D.L. , J . P . see Lyme Handley,

Prestbury 510 Maesfen hall. Rev. The Hon. Algernon Parker M.A. see

Macefen, Tushingham 644 Marbury hall, Arthur Hornby Lewis esq. D.L. , J . P . see

Marbury 45^ Marbury hall, Bryan Davies Poole esq. see Marbury-

cum-Quoisley 451 Marple hall, John Henry Bradshaw-Isherwood esq. J.P.

see Marple 453 Mere hall, William Prinsep Langford-Brooke esq. see

Mere, Rostherne 518 Mere Old hall. Sir Frank Forbes Adam C.I .E . , D.L. see

Rostherne 518 Middlewich Manor house, William Roylance Court esq.

J.p. see Newton-by-Middlewich 458 Mobberley hall, Kenneth Grossley esq. see Mobberley... 463 Mobberley Manor house, Arthur Lavington Payne esq.

J.p. see Mobberley 463 Mobberley Old haU, Ernest Gerard Leycester esq, B.A. ,

LL.B., J.p, see Mobberley 463 Mollington hall, Thomas Gibbons Frost esq. see Great

Mollington, Backford 56 Moore house. Miss Milner, see Moore, Daresbury 301 Moston hall, Mrs. James Swetenham, see Moston 465 Mottram hall, ISIrs. Wright, see Mottram St. Andrew,

Prestbury 510 New Moreton hall, George Herbert Shakerley-Ackers

J.p. see Astbury 52 Nevrton hall, Cecil P. Smith esq. see Newton-by-Ghester 488 Norbury Booths haU, Alfred Lassam Goodson esq. J . P .

see Over Knutsford 398 Norcliffe hall, Colonel Ernest ^\'illiam Greg J . P . see

Styal, Wilmslow 663 Norley bank, Col. WiUiam Lee Pilkington D.L. , J . P . see

Norley 489 Norley hall, Charles Bell esq. J . P . see Norley 489 North Rode Manor house, Edward Tootal Broadhurst

esq. J.p. see North Rode 514 Norton priory, Sir Richard Marcus Brooke bart. D.L. ,

J.p. see Halton 347 Oaklands (The), Cecil H. Shepherd Cross esq. see

Newton-by-Daresbury 301 Oakmere hall, Gapt. William Higson J . P . see Delamere 305 Oughtrington ])ark, Gerard Powys Dewhurst esq. see

Lymm 421 Oulton hall, Sir Philip Henry Brian Grey-Egerton bart.

D.L., J.p. see Little Budworth 198 Peckforton castle, Lord Tollemache D.L. , J . P . see

Bunbury 201 Peover hall. Sir Harry Stapleton Mainwaring bart. see

Over Peover 505 Pettypool hall, Viscount John Henry Michael Cole, see

Sandiway, Weaverham 653 Pole (The), Charles Leonard Agnew esq. see Antrobus 45 Poole hall, Thomas Henry Hardj' esq. J .P . see Poole,

Worleston .*. 679 Portal, Hon. Marshall Jones Brooks esq. M.A. see

Tarporley 628 Pott hall, Edward L. Hoyle esq. J . P . see Pott Shrigley 507 Pownall hall, Joseph Dickinson Lees esq. see Morley,

Wilmslow 643 Poynton towers, the Rt. Hon. Lord Vernon, see Poynton 507 Puddington hall, Samuel Sanday esq. J . P . see Pudding-

ton, Burton 203 Quarry Bank house, Gapt. Robert Alex. Greg J . P . see

Styal, Wilmslow 663 Ravenscroft hall, Mrs. Kay, see Byley 204

Reaseheath haU, Col. Edward Thomas DavenantCotton-JodreU C.B. (late R.A. ), D.L. , J . P . see Worleston 679

Rode hall, George Barrington Baker-Wilbraham esq. M.A., J.p. see Odd Rode 515

Rookery hall. Baron William Henry von Schroder D.L. , J.p. see AVorleston 679

RosehiU, Wm. Joseph Parkyn esq. J . P . see Northenden 490 Rostherne manor. Lord Egerton of Tatton D.L. , J . P .

see Rostherne 518 Rowton hall, John Wm. Macfie esq. J.P. see Ghristleton 27a Saighton grange. Countess Grosvenor,see ChurtonHeath 272 Sandiway house, John Fowler Leece Brunner esq. M.P. ,

J.p. see Sandiway, Weaverham 653 Sharston hall, Robert Clay esq. see Northenden 490 Shavington hall. Earl of Shrewsbury & Talbot, see

Shavington, Wybunbury 683 Shotwick park, William Vernon esq. see Great Saug­

hall, Shotwick 551 Shrigley haU, Col. WilUam Gorges Lowther J . P . see

Pott Shrigley 507 Somerford Booths hall, Clement WiUiam Swetenham

esq. J.p. see Hulme Walfield 374 Somerford park. Col. Sir Walter Geoffrey Shakerley

bart. J.p. see Somerford, Astbury 52 Springwood hall, Samuel Horsfield esq. J . P . see Romiley 516 Stanthorne hall, The Misses Dutton, see Stanthorne 567 Statham lodge, John Coxon esq. see Lymm 421 Stretton hall, Edward C. Turner esq. see TUston 638 Swettenham hall, Harold L. Behrens esq. see Swetten­

ham 626 Tabley house, Hon. Lady Leighton-^^'arren, see Nether

Tabley 627 Tatton park, Lord Egerton of Tatton D.L . , J . P . see

Tatton, Rostherne 51& ThelwaU hall, Rear-Admiral John Parry Jones-Parry

J.p. see ThelwaU 635 Thomycroft hall (unoccupied), see Siddington 552 Tilstone house, Gapt. Frederick Howard Wingfield

Fetherstonhaugh, see Tilstone Fearnall 639 TUstone lodge, Cyril Dewhurst, see Tilstone FearnaU... 639 Toft hall, Rafe Oswald Leycester esq. see Toft 643 Torkington lodge. Sir John E. Barlow bart. M.P . , J .P .

see Torkington, Hazel Grove 35J Tushingham hall. Rev. Llewelyn Brooke Vawdrey M.A.

see Tushingham 644 Twemlow hall, Mrs. Glazebrook, see Goostrey 340 Tytherington hall, Hy. Charlton esq. J . P . see Tythering­

ton, Prestbury 510 Upton hall. Miss Beck, see Upton, Prestbury 510 Vale royal, Robert Dempster esq. see Whitegate 658 Walton haU, Sir Gilbert Greenall bart. D .L . , J . P . see

Walton 649 Walton lea. Col. Harry Ramsden Armitage, see Walton

Superior 649 Weavprham grange, Alfred Johnson esq. see Weaverham 652 Whitby hall, Mrs. Grace, see Whitby, EUesmere Por t . . 329. ^^'icksted hall, Herbert Wicksted Ethelston esq. see

WirswaU 676 Willaston haU, James Bayley esq. J . P . see Willaston,

Wybunbury 683 WiUington haU, Charles William Tomkinson esq. J . P .

see WiUington 66t Wimbolds Trafford hall, Richard George Henry Perryn

esq. see ^Vimbolds Trafford, Thornton-le-Moors 637 WirswaU haU, Walter Thorn esq. see WirswaU 676 Wistaston hall, Jn.BaskervyleGlegg esq. J.P.see Wistaston 676 Withington hall, Ernest Frank esq. see Old Withington,

Chelford 212 Wrenbury hall, Arthur Starkey esq. J . P . see Wrenburj--

cum-Frith 680 Wythenshawe hall, Thomas Egerton Tatton esq. J . P .

see Northenden 490

INDEX TO

NAMES OF ADVERTISERS THE NUMBERS BEFEREED TO ARE THE ADVERTISEMENT PAGES AT THE END OF THE BOOK

ADAMS B., Estate agent & valuer i i BERISFORD 8. & W., Wine & spirit merchants ... 13 BERRY H. & SONS, Monumental masons 12 BLACKBURNE J. I. & CO., Wine & spirit

merchants 9 BRADY' G. & CO., Lift, window blind & shutter

manufacturers 17 BRADY & SON, Auctioneers 16 BRITISH ENGINE, BOILER & ELECTRICAL

INSURANCE CO. LTD 2 BROWN & CO. (CHESTER) LTD., House agents,

valuers & auctioneers 9 BUEROWS C, B., Builder, contractor, gasfitter &c, 16 CLAYTON J,, Joiner, builder & contractor 12 CLEGG H. A. & SONS, Monumental masons 6 COOKE B., Joiner, builder & contractor 13 COUNTY FIEE OFFICE LTD 3 ELLIS H,, Pianoforte warehouseman 9 FRITH A,, Monumental mason 12 FRITH E. & A., Joiners & builders 12 GROSVENOR MOTOR CO, LTD., Motor car

engineers & agents 7 GUEST & CHRIMES, Brass founders 19 HAJILOW B. & SON, Engineers & iron founders 13 HENSHAW J., Wheelwright & smith 15 HEYWOOD F. JUN.. Printers' roller mnfr 18 HIBBERT G., Timber merchant & saw mills 11 KELLY'S DIRECTORIES LTD., Printers &

publishers of the Post Office London, County & Trades Directories &c Inside Front ^-Back

Covers Sf page 20 LAMB R., Contractors'& builders'merchant 10 LAW EEVERSIONARY INTEREST SOCIETY

LTD 3 LONDON ASSURANCE 2

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MACE J., Timber, slate & sanitary pipe merchant 16 McLELLAN BROS., Builders & contractors 11 MAYERS J., SON & CO., Joiners, builders &

contractors 10 MOORE & BROCK, Builders'merchants 15 MORRIS P. & CO. (CHESTER), Paint, color &

varnish manufacturers 8 NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE INSUR­

ANCE CO 4 NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE

SOCIETY LTD 4 PEN-YR-ORSEDD SLATE QUARRY CO. LTD. 16 PERRY MISS, Private hotel 8 PHCENIX ASSURANCE CO. LTD 5 RATHBONE N., Quarry owner, stone & gravel

merchant 14 RICHMOND & CHANDLER LTD., Chaff cutter

manufacturers iS ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE 5 ROYLANCE G. & CO. LTD., Builders' merchants 12 SEWELL F. G., Sculptor «fe carver 12 SUN FIRE OFFICE i THOMAS H. F., Upholsterer & cabinet manufactr. 10 VALLACK W., Court milliner & ladies' tailor 6 VERNON W, & SON, Builders & contractors 11 WATSON E. LTD., Furnishing & general iron­

mongers 6 WE8TW00D J„ Plumber, glazier & gasfitter 14 WETTON J. & SONS LTD., Quarry owners &

stone merchants 14 WHITE W. C , Plumber, painter, decorator &c 16 WHITEHEAD A., Milliner 6 WOOD T. & SON, Ironmongers & art metal workers 11 WYATTBROS., Engineers, well borers &c 19

CLASSIFIED LXDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS THE NUMBERS REFERRED TO ARE THE ADVERTISEMENT PAGES AT THE END OP THE COOE.

ASSURANCE.

BRITISH ENGINE, BOILER & ELECTRICAL INSURANCE CO. LIMITED 2

COUNTY FIRE OFFICE LIMITED 3 LAW EEVERSIONARY INTEREST SOCIETY

LIMITED 3 LONDON ASSURANCE 2 NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE INSUR-

ANCE CO 4 NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SO­

CIETY LIMITED 4 PHCENIX ASSURANCE CO. LIMITED 5 ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE 5 SUN FIRE OFFICE i

GENERAI. TRADES. Agricultural ironmongers :—

E. WATSON LIMITED 6 Agricultural machinery manufacturers:—

RICHMOND & CHANDLER LIMITED 18 Antiquities—Dealer in :—

F. G. SEWELL 12 Art metal workers :—

T, WOOD & SON II Artesian well engineers:—

WYATT BROTHERS 19 Auctioneers :—

BRADY & SON 16 BROWN & CO. (CHESTER) LIMITED ... 9

Boarding establishment:— MISS PERRY 8

Brass founders:— GUEST & CHRIxAIES 19

Brick manufacturers :— R. LAMB 10 W. VERNON & SON 11

Builders & contractors:— H. BEEEY & SONS 12 C. B. BUEEOWS 16 J. CLAYTON 12 B. COOKE 13 E. & A. FEITH 12 McLELLAN BROTHERS u J. MAYERS, SON & CO 10 G. EOYLANCE & CO. LIMITED 12 W. VERNON & SON 11

Builders' ironmongers : — E. WATSON LIMITED 6

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Builders' merchants:— J. CLAYTON 12 B. COOKE 13 MOORE & BROOK 15 G. ROYLANCE & CO. LIMITED 12

Building materials merchants : — E. & A. FRITH 12

Cabinet manufacturer:— H. F. THOMAS 10

Cart & van builder :— J. HENSHAW 15

Cement merchant:— J. MACE 16

Chaff cutter manufacturers :— RICHMOND & CHANDLER LIMITED 18

Coal factors:— MOORE & BROCK 15

Color manufacturers: — P. MORRIS & CO. (CHESTER) 8

Contractors' & builders' merchant:— R. LAMB 10

Contractor for house repairs: — W.C.WHITE 16

C'orn crusher manufacturers:— RICHMOND & CHANDLER LIMITED 18

Cutlers:— T, WOOD & SON II

Decorators:— C.B. BUEEOWS 16 W. VEENON&SON 11 W . C . W H I T E 16

Dress maker: — W, VALLACK 6

Ecclesiastical furniture maker:— F. G. SEWELL 12

Electric lift manufacturers :— G. BEADY & CO 17

Electric light lamp manufacturers : — GUEST & CHEIMES 19

Engineers :— B. HAELOW&SON 13 WYATT BROTHERS 19

Fire extinguishing apparatus manufacturers :— GUEST & CHRIMES 19

Food preparing machinery manufacturers :— RICHMOND & CHANDLEE LIMITED 18

Funeral furnisher:— B. COOKE 13

CLASSIFIED LNDEX TO ADVERTISE!KNTS THE NUMBERS REFERRED TO ABB THE ADVERTISEMENT PAGES AT THE END OP THE BOOK.

ASSURANCE. BEITISH ENGINE, BOILBE & ELECTEICAL

INSUEANCE CO. LIMITED 2 COUNTY FIEE OFFICE LIMITED 3 LAW EEVEESIONAEY INTEEEST SOCIETY

LIMITED 3 LONDON AS3UEANCE 2 NOETH BEITISH & MEECANTILE INSUE­

ANCE CO 4 NOEWICH UNION FIEE INSUEANCE SO­

CIETY LIMITED 4 PH(ENIX ASSUEANCE CO. LIMITED 5 EOYAL EXCHANGE ASSUEANCE 5 SUN FIEE OFFICE 1

GENERAI^ TRADES. Agricultural ironmongers :—

E. WATSON LIMITED 6 Agricultural machinery manufacturers : —

EICHMOND & CHANDLEE LIMITED 18 Antiquities—Dealer in :—

F. G. SEWELL 12 Art metal workers :—

T. WOOD & SON II Artesian well engineers:—

WYATT BEOTHEES 19 Auctioneers :—

BEADY & SON 16 BROWN & CO. (CHESTER) LIMITED ... 9

Boarding establishment: — MISS PERRY 8

Brass founders:— GUEST & CHRIMES 19

Brick manufacturers :— R. LAMB 10 W. VERNON & SON u

Builders & contractors:— H. BEERY & SONS 12 C. B. BUEEOWS 16 J. CLAYTON 12 B. COOKE 13 E. & A. FEITH 12 McLELLAN BEOTHERS n J. MAYERS, SON & CO 10 G. ROYLANCE & CO. LIMITED 12 W. VERNON & SON u

Builders' ironmongers :— E. WATSON LIMITED 6

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Builders' merchants:— J. CLAYTON 12 B. COOKE 13 MOORE & BROOK 15 G. ROYLANCE & CO. LIMITED 12

Building materials merchants :— E. & A. FRITH 12

Cabinet manufacturer:— H. F. THOMAS 10

Cart & van builder :— J. HENSHAW 15

Cement merchant: — J. MACE 16

Chaff cutter manufacturers :— RICHMOND & CHANDLER LIMITED 18

Coal factors:— MOORE & BROCK 15

Color manufacturers: — P. MORRIS & CO. (CHESTER) 8

Contractors' & builders' merchant:— R. LAMB 10

Contractor for house repairs: — W.C.WHITE 16

C'orn crusher manufacturers:— RICHMOND & CHANDLER LIMITED 18

Cutlers:— T, WOOD & SON II

Decorators:— C.B. BUEEOWS 16 W. VEENON&SON 11 W . C . W H I T E 16

Dress maker:— W. VALLACK 6

Ecclesiastical furniture maker:— F. G. SEWELL 12

Electric lift manufacturers :— G. BEADY & CO 17

Electric light lamp manufacturers :— GUEST & CHRIMES 19

Engineers:— B. HARLOW & SON 13 WYATT BROTHERS 19

Fire extinguishing apparatus manufacturers :— GUEST & CHRIMES 19

Food preparing machinery manufacturers :— RICHMOND & CHANDLEE LIMITED 18

Funeral furnisher:— B. COOKE 13

XIV CLASSIFIED INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

Furnishing ironmongers:— E.WATSON LIMITED 6

Furniture removers:— B. COOKE 13 H. F. THOMAS 10

Furniture storer:— H. F. THOMAS 10

Gasfitters:— C. B. BUEEOWS 16 J. WESTWOOD 14

Gas fittings manufacturers :— GUEST & CHEIMES 19

Gas meter makers :--GUEST & CHRIMES 19

Glazier:— J. WESTWOOD 14

Granite & marble masons :— H. A. CLEGG & SONS 6

Grocers: — S. & W. BERISFORD 13

Haulage conti-actor:— B.COOKE 13

Heating apparatus manufacturers : — B. HARLOW & SON 13

Heating engineers:— WYATT BROTHERS 19

Hotel—Private :— MISS PERRY 8

House, land & estate agents : — B.ADAMS n BROWN & CO. (CHESTER) LIMITED 9 H, F, THOMAS 10

Insurance brokers' agent:— B.ADAMS II

Iron founders: — B. HARLOW & SON 13

Ironmongers:— E. WATSON LIMITED 6 T. WOOD & SON II

Joiners:— B. COOKE 13 E, & A. FRITH 12 J. MAYERS, SON & CO 10

Kitchen range manufacturers :— T. WOOD & SON II

Ladies' tailor:— W. VALLACK 6

Lift & hoist manufacturers: — G. BRADY «fc CO 17

Milliners:— W. VALLACK 6 A. WHITEHEAD 6

Monumental masons:— H. BEERY & SONS 12 H. A. CLEGG & SONS 6 A. FRITH 12 F. G, SEWELL 12

Motor car body builders: — GROSVENOR MOTOE CO. LIMITED 7

Motor car engineers & agents :— GEOSVENOE MOTOE CO, LIMITED 7

Motor car repairers, painters & trimmers :— GROSVENOR MOTOE CO. LIMITED 7

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Plumbers: — C. B. BURROWS 16 J. WESTWOOD 14 AY. C. WHITE 16

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Printers' roller manufacturer :— T. HEYWOOD, JUN 18

Provision merchants:— S. & W. BERISFORD 13

Quarry owners: — PEN-YR-ORSEDD SLATE QUARRY CO,

LIMITED 16 N. RATHBONE 14 J. AVETTON & SONS LIMITED 14

Roller composition manufacturer:— T. HEYWOOD, JUN 18

Sanitary engineers: — J. CLAYTON 12 G, ROY'LANCE & CO. LIMITED 12

Sanitary pipe merchant: — J. MACE 16

Sawing & planing mills : — G. HIBBERT 11

Sculptor & carver:— F. G. SEWELL 12

Shop & office fitters:— J. MAYERS, SON & CO 10

Shutter (revolving) manufacturers : — G. BRADY & CO 17

Sign writer :— C.B. BUEEOWS 16

Slate merchants: — J. MACE 16 PEN-YE-OESEDD SLATE QUAEEY CO.

LIMITED 16

Slate quarry owners:— PEN-YE-OESEDD SLATE QUAEEY CO.

LIMITED 16

Spring roller blind manufacturers : — G. BEADY & CO

Stone & gravel merchant:— N. EATHBONE

17

14 Stone merchants:—

J, WETTON & SONS LIMITED 14

Surveyors:— BEADY&SON 16

Tile merchant:— J. MACE 16

Timber merchants:— G. HIBBEET n J. MACE 16 G. ROYLANCE & CO. LIMITED 12

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'Upholsterer:— H, F. THOMAS lo

Valuers:— B.ADAMS II BEADY & SON i6 BEOWN & CO. (CHESTEE) LIMITED 9 H. F. THOMAS 10

Valve manufacturers:— • GUEST & CHRIMES 19

Varnish manufacturers:— P. MOERIS & CO. (CHESTEE) 8

Water meter manufacturers:— GUEST & CHEIMES 19

Wheelwrights:— G, EOYLANCE & CO. LIMITED 12

Wheelwright & smith:— J. HENSHAW 15

Window blind manufacturers :— G, BEADY & CO 17

Wine & spirit merchants:— S. & W. BEEISFOED 13 J. L BLACKBUENE & CO 9

Wood block flooring manufacturers:— W, VEENON&SON n

Wood preservative manufacturers:— P. MOEEIS & CO. (CHESTEE) S

CHESHIEE CHESHIRE is on the north-west side of England, com­municating with the Irish Sea by the friths or mouths of the Dee and Mersey: the county is bounded on the north by the Mersey, which divides it from Lancashire, and by a small portion of Yorkshire; on the east by Derbyshire (the small rivers Etherow and Goyt forming the boun­dary) and south-east by Staffordslure; on the south by Shropshire; on the south-west by Denbighshire and on the west by Tlintshire and the Irish Sea; and is about 32 miles from north to south, and about 50 from east to west.

The population of Cheshire has largely increased during the last century ; the following table shows the numbers at each census: —

Year. ' 1

1801 i S i i 1 1821 1831 1 1841 ! 1851 , 1861 1871 1 1881 1891

Males.

93.03s 110,858 132,952 164,133 193,646 222,386 244.314 271,033 311,188 359.100

Females.

1 99,270 1

116,173 1 137.146 1 170,258 202,014 i 233.339 1 261,114 j 290,168 332.849 ' 384.769

Total.

192.305 227,031 270,098 334.391 395,660 455.725 505,428 561,201 644.037 743.879

9 The population of the administrative county in 1901 was 827,191, viz.:—males, 395,017; females, 432,174.

The number of houses in 1901 was: inhabited 172,177, uninhabited 14,323, including 5,890 in general occupa­tion for business or other purposes, and building 1,508

The area of the administrative county and three county boroughs is 654,825 acres.

The area of the ancient or geographical county is rather above the average of English shires, being 657,783 acres. The population in 1901 was 815,099, viz. : — males, 389,768; females, 425.331.

The history of Cheshire in the Iberian, Celtic and Belgian periods is almost a blank. The Bomans occupied the county during many years; Chester, the ancient Deva, was the station of the 20th Legion, and the county was intersected by many Roman roads, the remains ol which may still be traced in different places. After the downfall of the Romans, the Welsh held it till about 607, when it fell under the power of Ethelfrith, King of Ber-nicia; but it was recovered by the Welsh, who held much of it till it was again taken by Egbert in 828, and annexed to the kingdom of Mercia, since which it has always been held by the English. For several centuries it was the scene of frequent warfare with the Welsh. Daring the Parhamentary war Cheshire was hotly con­tested; but in February, 1646, the Royalists were subdued.

William the Norman made it a county palatine for his nephew, Hugh Lupus, whose dynasty held it for two centuries; it has been since 1246 an appanage of the eldest sons of the king, who hold the Earldom ol Chester, with the Principality of "Wales and Duchy of Cornwall, giving a nonunal suzerainty over the 'West of England.

The county is generally level, consisting of the vales of the two great river systems of the Dee and Mersey and of the peninsula of Wirral, and includes several meres or large ponds, of which Combermere is the largest; towards the north and east the county rises into low hills and moorland. The soils consist of clayey and sandy loams and peat-moss, overlying the new red sandstone formation.

The county is watered by the Mersey, the Dee and the Weaver, and their tributaries, the Dane, the Bollin, the Peover and the Wheelock. The climate is moist, and, j

with the soil, is favoarable for paatarage; the rich dairy-land prodaces the famous cheese. Many agricnlx tural and market garden products are also raised, sticau-lated by the demand in Liverpool, Manchester and other populous manufacturing towns.

The great tongue of land between the Dee and the Mersey is called Wirral, and includes above 100,000 acres: the southern suburbs of Liverpool are seated on its northern shores. The friths of the Dee and Mersey are navigable for shipping, and have on them the ports of Birkenhead, Chester and Runcorn. The Weaver has been made navigable for vessels of from 250 to 300 tons from Winsford Bridge, and falls into the estuary of the Mersey at Weston Point Docks,

The Manchester Ship Canal, This canal is intimately associated with Cheshire, the mouth being on the Cheshire shore of the Mersey, and portions of it traverse the county. The Manchester Ship Canal Company was incorporated by the Act 48 and 49 Vict, c, 188, which received the royal assent, 6 August, 1885, The capital was originally fixed at ^^8,000,000, with borrowing powers up to ;^i,812,000, but in 1890 second debentures were issued for ;^6oo,ooo, and in 1891 the Manchester Cor­poration was associated with the undertaking, and advanced ^^5,000,000. The Company is also authorised to borrow ^^100,000 on the security of surplus lands. By the " Manchester Ship Canal (Finance) Act, 1904,'' the Company is authorised to issue 3^ per cent, non-cumulative preference shares or stock in settlement of arrears of debenture interest payable to the Manchester Corporation in respect to the ;^5,000,000 loan. The objects for which the company was formed include the purchase of " The Bridgewater Canals Undertaking," which includes the Mersey and Irwell Navigation and the Runcorn and Latchford canal, also warehouses at Manchester and Warrington and the Old Quay docks at Runcorn. The work was begun in November, 1887, under the superintendence of Mr. E. Leader Williams M.I.CE. as engineer, and the late Mr. T. A. Walker being the contractor until his death, November 25, 1889, and it was finished under other contracts. The canal was opened for traffic ist January, 1894. The formal or official opening by H.M. the late Queen Victoria took place May 21, 1891, and on July 13, 1905, His late Majesty King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandia opened a magnificent new dock. The total expenditure on capital account to June 30, 1905 was ;^i6,302,565. The canal itself is 35^ miles in length, and virtually consists of four long docks, with five sets of locks, and 12 miles of the entire length, i.e. from Bixton to Manchester, bas bsen formed by making a direct and deep channel for the united streams of the Mersey and Irwell, which the former enters at Irlam, the latter— by far the most important oontributor—^passing direct into the Manchester Decks, the Mersey resuming its course towards the sea on the north of the canal near ThelwaU. The lower section of the canal from East­ham to Buncorn forms a carved line of 13 miles along the Cheshire shore of the estuary of the Mersey, joining at Weston Point the mouth of the navigable river Weaver, which is connected with an extensive system of canals; the depth of the canal is 26 feet, and is now being deepened to 28 feet, the various locks raising its level on the whole to 70 feet above mean sea level or 60 feet above the low water level of the Eastham Pond; the minimam width at the bottom is 120 feet, or 48 feet wider than the bottom of the Suez canal; and for a distance of 3J miles, on approaching Manchester, the bottom width is 170 feet, so that ships can lie along the banks without interfering with the fairway. The Dock Estate covers an area of 406J acres, including a water space of 120 acres, and quays 6J miles in length. The Manchester docks are on both banks of the Irwell, chiefly in Salford, but also in Man­chester on the site of Pomona Gardens, Combrook. rhey occupy a space of 71 acres. At Barton-on-the~

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Irwell (Lancashire) the canal is crossed by the Bridge-water caned, carried over it by an aqueduct, which is constructed as a cassion or trough. The Barton aqueduct moves on a radius of rol lers; the span of each is 90 feet ; full length 235 feet ; width 18 feet, depth 6 feet ; weight when swinging 1,450 tons. Here is a swing bridge for vehicular and passenger traffic. Near by are the Barton locks, 600 feet by 65 feet, and 350 feet by 40 feet, and four sluices, each 30 feet wide, with a descend­ing level of 15 feet ; at Irlam, where the Cheshire Lines railway crosses by a viaduct, is another set of locks and sluices of similar dimensions, also affording a descent of 16 feet ; several railway lines also cross the canal, and all the railway bridges have a high elevation, so as to give a clear headway of 75 feet above the water. The lines of approach to these bridges extend i^ miles on each side, and rise i in 135. At Partington is a large coal basin with coal tips for loading vessels: a t Latchfoid, south-east of Warrington, is a far ther set of locks of equal size, with a fall of 16 feet 6 inches, and about a mile and a Ixalf below this is Warrington. The next important point is a t Buncorn, about 7 miles below Warrington ; the docks here are always accessible, instead of at spring tides only, and the Ship canal is con-nected*at this point with the London and North Western railway, the Rimcorn and Weston canal, the Buncorn and Latchford canal, and, via the river Mersey, with the town of Widnes (Lancashire), and the Sankey Navi­gation, having on its northern bend three locks: beyond this the junction of the river Weaver necessitates sluices, ten in number, forming here the river wall of the canal and constructed to allow free access of the waters of the Mersey, The canal, from the spot at which i t emerges into the estuary of the Mersey, is separated from it by strongly constructed walls and embankments up to the entrance locks at Eas tham, respectively 600 feet long and 80 feet wide, 350 feet long and 50 wide, and 150 by 3 0 ; the sills of the gates are 2 feet 6 inches lower that the deepest dock sills a t Liverpool or Birken­head. EUesmere Port, 3^ miles from Eas tham, is the outlet for the Shropshire Union system of canals. The locks on the Manchester canal are not single, bu t are built in pairs, with intermediate gates, to avoid waste of water in the passage of vessels of various tonnage, and besides the principal locks there are sub­sidiary locks (side entrances) at Weston Marsh, Weston Mersey, Bridgewater, Buncorn (Old Quay), Walton and Twenty-Steps. Vessels can navigate the canal with safety at a speed of five miles an hour, and it is estimated that the passage from the entrance at Eastham to Manchester can be accompUshed in eight hoars for the largest vessels, and five for average ones, which is much less time than is a t present taken to cart goods from ship to rail in Liverpool and thence by rail to Manchester. The Eas tham section of the canal was flooded 19 Jane , 1891, and the first flotilla of traffic from EUesmere Port passed down into the Mersey on the following 15 J u l y ; on 15 September, 1891, the water was admit ted up to Weston Point, and on 25 November, 1893, the canal was entirely fiUed with water. The Part ington coal basin again, with Its 5^ acres of water space and a half mile of quayage, giving an area of 20 acres, is only 8 miles from the nearest Lancashire coUiery, and about 40 miles from the nearest South Yorkshire coal­field, which at present has no available outlet on the west coast. There is direct railway communication, the Cheshixe Lines system crossing the canal a t this point. At Buncorn, the Ship Canal Company, as the owners of the Bridgewater docks, are conmected with the Staffordshire potteries and coal and iron industries by the Trent and Mersey and Bridgewater canals. At Partington and Barton, the Wigan and Worsley coal­fields are only a few miles from the canal. The docks at Weston Point are joined to the great Cheshire salt field by the Weaver Navigation, over which a million tons of salt is carried yearly for exportation. The district affected by the Manchester Ship canal con­tains over 150 important towns, 100 of which have a population of more than 10,000, and in eleven of these the population exceeds 100,000: the total popolation of this area may be taken at 7.500,000, and it is also rich in minerals and great industries. The offices of the Company are a t 41 Spring gardens, Manchester ; F . A. Eyre, secretary and accountant.

The other canals include the Grand Trunk, or Trent and Mersey canal, the Chester and Nantwich canal, the Macclesfield canal, the EUesmere canal, Shropshire Union canal and the Peak Forest canal.

Cheshire is connected with the great system of railways by several lines, chiefly connecting with the south and continuing the Lancashire communication. The London and North Western railway is the chief of these.

passing from the south by Stafford, Crewe, Winsford and Warrington to the north, and by Buncorn across the Mersey to Liverpool. From Crewe branches pass to Sandbach junction, Stockport and Manchester on the north-ea«t, to Chester on the north-west, on the south­west through Whitchurch to Shropshire and Sooth Wales, on the south-cast to the Pottery District. From Chester lines run to Holyhead in North Wales, and through Shrewsbury to the Welsh borders and to South Wales. Another line connects Macclesfield with Stafford­shire, and there is also a line from Stockport through Cheadle and Lymm to Warrington, At Crewe are the great engineering works of the London and North Western railway. The London and North Western and Great Western joint railway have branch lines from Chester through Hooton junction to Birkenhead, through Helsby junction to Frodsham jimction and Buncorn, from Hooton junction to West Kirby, where it joins the Wirral railway, and one from Whitchurch through Malpas to Chester.

The Great Western railway have a branch line from Shrewsbury to Crewe.

The Cheshire Lines Committees railway have branches from Sandbach through Middlewich, Northwich, Knuts­ford, Altrincham and Bowdon to Manchester and Stockport, also to Cheadle and from Northwich to Chester, and to Helsby on the London and North Western and Great Western joint line and another to Winsford and Over,

The Great Central railway have a line from Stock­port through Hyde and Dukinfield to Stalybridge, one from Stockport to Manchester and another to Maccles­field. This company opened in 1896 a new line from Dee Bridge, passing through Parkgate and Upton to Bidston junction on the Wirral railway, and to the Mersey tunnel at Birkenhead.

The Midland raUway enters the county from the extreme north-east a t Marple, passing through Hyde to Manchester. This Company opened a line in 1902 from New MiUs, in Derbyshire to Cheadle Heath, near Stockport.

The North Staffordshire railway have a branch line from Stoke, Staffordshire, through Congleton and Macclesfield to Manchester and another to Crewe.

The Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham raO-way connects those places and has a station at Sale.

From Birkenhead the Wirral railway starts, passing through Wallasey and Hoylake to its terminus at Weit Ki rby; this branch has a line from WaUasey to New • Brighton.

The minerals worked in Cheshire are fire-clay, brick-clay, coal, salt, gravel and sand, sandstone, limestone. Coal is worked near Stockport, and is found in Wirral; the amount raised in 1908 was 346,663 tons, value it the pits mouth, ;^i47,3i9- The number of coal mines at work in 1908 was 18, employing 968 under ground and 246 above ground. Salt is a great industry in this county and obtained in large quantities from mines and salt springs at Northwich, Nantwich, Middlewich and Winsford; it is manufactured for the supply of England and for the export t r ade ; for particulars of the production and manufacture, see Northwich, p. 493. The quantity of rock salt, white salt made from brine and salt con­tained in brine raised in 1908 (including Staffs.) was 1,167,995 tons. Fire-clay was raised to the extent of 21,062 tons in 1908, value ;^6,304, and brick-clay, 127,385 tons, value ^^7,060; gravel and sand, 24,350 tons. Sandstone was raised to the extent of 44,576 tons in 1908, valued at ;^3,405.

From its contiguity to South Lancashire the manu­factures of tha t district have extended into this county, including those of cotton and silk, fustian, woollen, worsted, flax, lace, ribbons and tr immings, hose, boots and h a t s ; cotton printing and dyeing are also carried on. Ship-building, chiefly on the Mersey, rope-making and sail-cloth; also manufacture of chemicals, soap-boiling and tallow chandlery, but salt is the principal product of the county. The paper manufjuiture is small, and so is tha t of pottery. Brewing and malting are not carried on so extensively as in many other shires.

Bricks are made extensively; there are some small works for the copper and zinc manufactures, and there are some machine works.

By the Act i Wm. IV. cap, 70, abolishing the palatine jurisdiction, the shire is joined with the North Wales circuit, and it has one court of quarter sessions. Chester is the shire town and seat of the assizes and quarter sessions. The county is divided into 16 petty sessional divisions.

The shire contains 464 parishes, and is within the province of York, and forms a diocese comprising the whole of the county of Chester, with the conntt

DIRECTORY. ] CHESHIRE. of the city of Chester. I t is divided into the arch­deaconries Ol Chester and Macclesfield. Chester arch­deaconry is subdivided into the rural deaneries of Birkenhead, Chester, Frodsham. Malpas, Middlewich, Nantwich, Wallasey and Wir ra l ; Macclesfield arch­deaconry is subdivided into the rural deaneries of Bowdon, Congleton, Macclesfield, Mottram and Stock­port.

The municipal boroughs include the ancient cathedral city of Chester, having a population in igoi of 38,309, and being a seaport; Birkenhead, no .915 ; Stockport (1902). 92,832 ; Macclesfield, 34,624 ; Stalybridge, 26,673; Dukinfield, 18,929; Congleton, 10,707; Crewe, 42,074; Hyde, 32,766; Wallasey (which includes Liscard and PouIton-cum-Seacombe), 53,579; other towns and places are—Buncorn, a shipping port on the Mersey, 16,491; Altrincham, 16,831 ; Winsford or Wharton, 3,319; Wilnaslow, 7,361 ; Nantwich, 7,772; Knutsford, 5,172; Lymm, 4,707; BoUington, 5,245; Mottram, 3,128 ; Over, 7,063; Sandbach, 5,558; Frodsham, 2,728; Hoole, 5,341; Audlem, 1.455! Neston and Parkgate, 4,154; Tarporley, 2,644; Tarvin, 1,093; Malpas, 1,139. New Brighton, Hoylake, Great Neston and Parkgate are watering places. There are many large manufactur­ing villages in Cheshire.

The Begistration districts are :—

No.

443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450

451 452

Name.

Stockport Macclesfield Bucklow Runcorn Northwich Congleton Nantwich Chester (Union)... Tar vinUnion( Ches­

ter Registrtn.dis) Wirral Birkenhead

Acres.

28,466 85,887 75.413 50.434 62,569 50.570

101,^54 38.713

63,069 45.573

9,240

Pop. 1901.

156,308 59.354 79.595 39.735 £4.735 32,534 72,993 54.639

15,258 44.316

165,171

The following is a list of the poor law unions with the places contained in each :—

Birkenhead Union, Bidston-cum-Ford Noctorum Birkenhead Poulton-cum-Seacombe Liscard WaUasey

Bucklow Union (late Altrincham). Northenden Agden

Altrincham Ashley Ashton-upon-Mersey Aston-by-Budworth Baguley Bexton BoUin Fee BoUington Bowdon Garrington Dunham-Massey Hale High Leigh Knutsford Lymm MarthaU-cum-Warford Mere MUlington Mobberley

Northen Etchells Ollerton Partington Peover Inferior Peover Superior Pickmere Plumley Ringway Rostherne Sale Styal Tabley Inferior Tabley Superior Tatton Timperley Toft W'arburnton Wilmslow

Bache Backford Blacon-cum-Crabwall Boughton—Great Bridge Trafford Capenhurst CaughaU Chester Chester Castle Chorlton-by-Backford Chrisleton Claverton Croughton Dodleston Dunham-on-the-Hill Eaton Eccleston Elton

Chester Union. Hapsford Hoole Hoole Village' Ince Kinnerton—Lower Lea-by-Backford Littleton Marlston-cum-Lache Mickle Trafford Mollington Moston Newton-by-Chester Picton Poulton Pulford Saughall—Great Saughall—Little Shotwick

Shotwick Park Stanlow Stanney—Great Stanney—Little Stoke

Thornton-le-Moors ITpton-by-Chester Wervin Wimbolds Trafford Woodbank

Congleton Union. Alsager Arclid Betchton Blackden BradwaU Brereton-cum-Smethwick Buglawton Church Hulme, or Holme

Chapel Church Lawton Congleton Cotton

1 Cranage j Davenport 1 Elton ; Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw

Hassall Hulme Walfield Kermincham Leese Moreton-cum-Alcumlow Moston Newbold Astbury

s OddRode Sandbach SmaUwood Somerford Somerford Booths Swettenham Tetton Twemlow Wheelock

Macclesfield Union, Adiington Alderley Edge

Mottram St, Andrew Newton

Alderley—Nether, or Inferior North Rode Alderley—Over, or Superior Birtles BoUington Bosley Butley Gapesthorne Chelford Chorley Eaton-by-Congleton Fallibroome Gawsworth Henbury-cum-Pexall Hurdsfield Kettleshulme Lyme Handley Macclesfield

1 Macclesfield Forest ' Marton

Pott Shrigley Poynton-with-Worth Prestbury Rainow siddington Snelson Sutton Taxal Tytherington Upton Warford—Great Wildboarclough Wincle Withington—Lower Withington—Old Woodford Yeardsley-cum-Whaley

Nantwich Union.

Acton-by-Nantwich Alpraham Aston-juxta-Mondrum Audlem Austerson Baddiley Baddington

' Barthomley i Basford

Batherton Bickerton Blakenhall Bridgemere Brindley Broomhall Buerton Bulkeley Bunbury Burland Calveley Checkley-cum-Wrinehill Cholmondeley Gholmondeston Chorley Ghorlton Church Coppenhall Church MinshuU Goole Pilate Crewe Dodcott-cum-Wilkesley Doddington Edleston Egerton Faddiley Hankelow

Haslington Hatherton Haughton Henhull Hough Hunsterson Hurleston Lea Leighton Minshull Vernon Monks CoppenhaU Nantwich Newhall Peckforton Poole Ridley Rope Shavington-cum-Gresty Sound Spurstow Stapelej-Stoke Walgherton Wardle Warmingham Weston Wettenhall \^•iUaston Wistaston Woodcott Woolstanwood Worleston Wrenbury-cum-Frit h Wybunbury

Nort wich Union.

Acton-by-Weaverham Allostock Anderton Barnton Bostock Budworth—Little Byley CJive

Cogshall Comberbach Crowton Guddington Damhall Davenham Delamere Eaton-by-Davenham

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Eddisbury Hartford Kinderton Lach Dennis Leftwich Leigh—Little Lostock Gralam Marbury Marston Marton Middlewich Moulton Northwich

Acton Grange Alvanley Antrobus Appleton Aston-by-Sutton Aston Grange Bartington Budworth—Great CUfton Crowley Daresbury Dutton Frodsham Frodsham Lordship Grappenhall Halton Hatton Helsby Keckwick Kingsley KingsM-ood

Oakmere Over Peover Nether Rudheath Sproston Stanthorne Weaverham-cum-Milton Wharton or Winsford "Whatcroft Wimboldsley Wincham Winnington

Runcorn Union. Latchford Without Mauley Moore Newton-by-Daresbury Newton-by-Frodsham Norley Norton Preston on the Hill Buncorn Sevenoaks Stockham Stockton Heath Stretton Sutton ThelwaU Walton Inferior •Walton Superior Weston Whitley Higher, or Superior Wbitlev Lower, or Inferior

Stockport Union, Bredbury Brinnington Cheadle Compstall Handforth Hazel Grove-cum-Bramhall H e a ^ n Norris (Lanes)

Hyde Marple Reddish (Lanes) Romiley Stockport Stockport Etchells

Tarvm Union.

Aldersey Aldford Ashton Barrow Barton Beeston Broxton Bruen Stapleford Buerton Burton-by-Tarvin Burwardsley Caldecott Garden Ghowley Churton-by- Aid ford Churton-by-Farndon Churton Heath Glotton Hoofield Glutton Coddington Cotton Abbotts Cotton Edmunds Crewe-by-Farndon Duddon Eaton-by-Tarporley Edgerley Farndon Foulk Stapleford Golborne Bellow Golborne David Grafton

Arrowe Barnston Bebington—Higher Bebington —Lower Brimstage Bromborough Burton Caldy Childer Thornton Eastham Frankby

Guilden Sutton Handler Harthill Hatton Hockenhull HortOH-by-M;i!pas Horton-cum-Peel Huntington Huxley IddinshaU (liberty) Kelsall Kingsmarsh Lea Newbold Mouldsworth Newton-by-Tattenhall Pryors Hayes Rowton Rushton Saighton Shockland Church Shockland Oviatt Stretton Tarporley Tarvm Tattenhall Tilston Tilstone Fearnall Tiverton Utkinton Waverton WiUington

Wirral Union.

Gayton Grange Greasby Heswall-cum-Oldfield Hooton Hoylake-cum-West Kirbv Irby Landican Ledsham Moreton Ness

Neston-cum-Parkgate Netherpool Overpool Pensby Poulton-cum-Spittle Prenton Puddington Raby Saughall Massie Storeton

Sutton—Great Sutton—Little-Thingwall Thornton Hough Thurstaston Upton, or Overchurch-by-

Bir'cenhead Whitby WiUaston W^oodchurch

The following is a list of the hundreds, with the places contained in each :—

Hundred of Broxton (Higher division),—Aldersey, Ald­ford, Barton, Bickerton, Broxton, Bulkeley, Burwardsley, Caldecott, Garden, Cholmondeley, Ghowley, Churton-by-Alford, CJhurton-by-Farndon, Glutton, Coddington, Crewe, Egerton, Farndon, Grafton, Handley, Harthill, Horton-by-Malpas, Kingsmarsh, Stretton and "TUston,

Hundred of Broxton (Lower division),—^Bacbe, BuertoUr Caughall or Coughall, Ghristleton, Churton Heath or Bruera, Cotton Abbotts, Cotton Edmunds, Doddleston, Eaton, Eccleston, Edgerley, Foulk Stapleford, Goulbourn Bellow, Goldbourn David, Great Boughton, Hatton, Hoole, Huntington, Huxley, Lea Newbold, Littleton, Lower Kin­nerton, Marlston-cum-Leach, Mickle Trafford, Moston, Newton-by-Chester, Newton-by-TattenhaU, Pickton, Poul­ton, Pulford, Rowton, Saighton, Sutton GuUden, Tatten­hall, Upton, Waverton and Wervin,

Hundred of Eddisbury (First division).—Alpraham,Bees-ton, Bunbury, Calveley, Darnhall, Delamere, Eaton, Eddis­bury, Haughton, IddinshaU, Kingswood, Little Budworth, Low Oulton, Marton, Oakmere, Over, Peckforton, Eidley, Bushton, Spurstow, Tarporley, Tilstone FearnaU.'HveTton, Utkinton, Wardle, Weaver, Wettenhall and Whitegate.

Hundred of Eddisbury (Second division).—Acton, Al­vanley, Ashton, Barrow,Bridge Trafford,Btuen Stapleford, Burton-by-Tarvin, Castle Northwich, Glotton Hoofield, Crowton, Guddington, Duddon, Dunham-on-the-Hill, Elton, Frodsham, Hapsford, Hartford, Helsby, Hockenhull Stapleford, Horton-cnm-Peel, Ince, Kelsall, Kingslejv Manley, Mouldsworth, Newton-by-Frodsham, Norley, Onston, Pryors Hayes, Tarvin-with-Oscroft, Thornton-le-Moors, Wallerscoat, Weaverham, WiUington, Wimbolds Trafford and Winnington.

Hundred of Bucklow.—Acton Grange, Agden, Altrin­cham, Anderton, Antrobus, Appleton or Hull and Appleton, Ashley, Ashton-upon-Mersey, Aston-by-Budworth, Aston-by-Sutton, Ashton Grange, Baguley, Barnton, Bartington, Bexton, BoUington, Bowdon, Garrington, Clifton or ROck-savage, CogshaU, Comberbach, Crowley, Daresbury, Dun­ham Massey, Dutton, Grappenhall. Great Budworth, Ha'.e, Halton, Hatton, High Leigh, Kekewick or Keckwick,^ Latchford, Little Leigh, Lymm, Marbury, Marston, Mar-thall-cum-Little-Warford, Mere, Millington, Mobberley, Moore or Moor, Nether or Inferior Knmtsford, Newton-by-Daresbury, Norton, Ollerton, Over or Superior Knutsford, Partington, Peover Inferior, Peover Superior, Pickmere,. Plmnbley, Preston on the Hill, Eostherne, Buncorn, Sale,. Seven Oaks, Stockham, Stretton, Sutton, Tabley Inferior, Tabley Superior, Tatton, ThelwaU, Timperley, Toft,Walton Inferior, Walton Superior, Warburton, Weston, Whitley Inferior, Whitley Superior and Wincham.

Hundred of Macclesfield.—^Adiington, Birtles, Bollin "Fee, BolUngton, Bosden, Bosley, Bfamhall, Bredbury, Brinning­ton, Butley, Gapesthorne, Cheadle Bulkeley, Cheadle Moseley, Chelford, Chorley, Disley or Disley Stanley, Eaton, Fallybroom or Fallybroome, Fulshaw, Gawsworth, Great Warford, Handforth-cum-Bosden, Hazel Grove, Hen-bury-with-Pexhall, Hurdsfield, Hyde, Kettleshulme, Lower Withington, Lyme Handley, ^Macclesfield, Macclesfield Forest, Marple, Marton, Mottram St. Andrew, Nether Alderley, Newton, Norbury, North Bode, Northen, Northen Etchells, Offerton, Old Withington, Over Alderley, Pott­Shrigley, Pownall Fee, Poynton or Pointon, Prestbury, Rainow, Eomiley or Chadkirk, Siddington, Snelson, Somerford Booths, Stockport, Stockport Etchells, Sutton, Taxal, Torkington, Tytherington, LTpton, Wemeth,'Whaler-cum-Y"eardsley, Wildboarclough', "Wincle, Woodford and Worth.

Hundred of Nantwich.—Acton, Alsager, Alvaston, A^ton juxta Mondrum, Audlem, Austerson, Baddiley, Badding­ton, Barthomley, Basford, Batherton, Betchton, Blaken­hall, Bridgemere, Brindley, Broomhall, Buerton, Burland, Checkley-cum-Wrinehill, Cholmondestone, Chorley, Ghorl­ton, Church Coppenhall, Church MinshuU, Cool Pilate, Crewe, Dodcott-cum-Wilkesley, Doddington, Edleston or Edlaston, Faddiley, Hankelow, Haslington, Hassall, Hatherton, Henhull, Hough, Hunsterson, Hurleston. Lea, Leighton, Monks Coppenhall, Nantwich, Newhall, Poole, Bope, Shavington»cum-Gresty, Sound, Stapeley, Stoke,.

DIRECTORY. ] CHESHIRE. Walgherton, Weston, WiUaston, Wistaston, Woodcott, Woolstanwood, Worleston, Wrenbnry-with-Frith and Wybmibnry.

Htmdred of Northwich,—AUostock, Arclid, Birches, Blackden, Bostock, BradwaU, Brereton-cum-Smethwick, Buglawton, Byley-cmn-Yatehouse, Church Hulme or Holmes Chapel, Church Lawton, d i v e , Congleton, Cotton, Cranage, Groxton, Davenham, Davenport, Eaton, Elton, Goostrey-cum-Barnshaw, Hulme Walfield, Hulse, Ker­mincham, Kinderton-cum-Hulme, Lach Dennis, Leese, Leftwich, Lostock Gralam, Middlewich, MinshuU Vernon, Mooresbarrow-cum-Parme, Moreton-cmn-Alcumlow, Mos­ton, Moulton, Nether Peover, Newbold Astbury, NewhaU, Newton, Northwich, Occlestone, Odd Bode,Badnor,Bavens-croft, Budheath, Sandbach, Shipbrook, Shurlach, Small-wood, Somerford, Sproston, Stanthorne, Stublach, Sutton, Swettenham, Tetton, Twemlow, Warmingham, Wharton or Winsford, Whatcroft, Wheelock, Wimboldsley and Wotton-cum-Twambrooks.

Hundred of Wirral (Higher division).—Backford,Blacon-cum-Crabhall or Crabwall, Bromborough, Burton, Capen­hurs t , Childer Thornton, Chorlton-by-Backford,Croughton or Croghton, Eastham, Great Neston.Great SaughaU,Great Stanney, Great Sutton, Hooton, Lea, Ledsham, Leighton, Litt le Neston, Little Saughall, Little Stanney. Little Sutton, Mollington Banastre or Little Mollington, MoUington Tarrant or Great Mollington, Ness, Nether Pool, Over Pool, Puddington, Raby, Shotwick, Stanlow, Stoke, Thornton Hough, Whitby, Willaston and Wood-bank.

Hundred of Wirral (Lower division).—Arrow, Barnston, Bidston-cum-Ford, Birkenhead, Brimstage, Caldy, Claugh-ton-cum-Grange, Frankby, Gayton, Grange, Greasby, Great Meolse, Heswall-with-Oldfield, Higher Bebington, Hoose, Irby, Landican, Liscard, Little Meolse, Lower Bebington, Moreton-cum-Lingham, Newton-cum-Larton, Noctorum, Oxton, Pensby,Poulton-cum-Seacomb, Poulton-cum-Spit t le, Prenton, Saughall Massey or SaughaU Massie, Storeton, Thingwell or Thingwall, Thurstaston, Tranmere, Upton or Overchurch, Wallasey, West Kirby and Woodchurch.

Chester City.—Holy Trinity, St. Bridget, St. John Baptist, St. Martin, St. Mary-on-the-Hill, St. Michael, St. Olave, St. Oswald, St. Peter and Spittle Boughton.

These ecile^-iastical parishes now form one civil parish.

PABLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF CHESHIRE.

Cheshire formerly returned three members in three divi­sions, bu t under the provisions of the "Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885," it now returns eight members in eight divisions.

No. I.—The Wirral division comprises the hundred of Wirral and the municipal borough of Birkenhead.

No. 2.—^The Eddisbury division comprises the sessional divisions of Broxton, Chester Castle (except so much as is comprised in the Wirral hundred), Eddisbury (except so much as is comprised in No. 5 division) and Nantwich (except so much as is comprised in No. 4 division), the municipal borough of Chester, and the townships of BradwaU, MinshuU Vernon, Moston, Occleston, Sutton Tetton, Warmingham and Wimboldsley in Northwich sessional division.

j jo. 3.—The Macclesfield division, comprises the municipal boroughs of Congleton and Macclesfield and the town­ships of Birtles. Bosley, Eaton, Gawsworth, Henbury-cum-PexeU, North Bode, WUdboarclough and Wmcle and so much of the townships of Hurdsfield and Sutton as is not included in the municipal borough of Maccles­field and the townships of Buglawton, Hulme Walfield, Newbold Astbury and Badnor in Northwich sessional division.

No. 4.—The Crewe division, comprises the townships of Alvaston and Beamheath in Alvaston, Barthomley, Bas­ford, Ghorlton, Church CoppenhaU, Crewe, Haslington, Hough, Nantwich, Bope, Shavington-cum-Gresty, Stapeley, Weston, Willaston, Wistaston, and Wybunbury in the sessional division of Nantwich, Newbold and the townships of Alsager, ArcUd, Betchton, Church Lawton, Elton, HassaU, Morton-cum-Alcunolow, Old Bode, Sand­bach, Smallwood and Wheelock in Northwich sessional division,

jjo_ J. The Northwich division, comprises the sessional division of Eimcorn, the townships of Bartington, Dutton and Little Leigh in Daresbury sessional division, the townships of Acton, Over and Weaverham-cum-Milton in Eddisbury sessional division, the townships of Ander­ton, Barnton, Castle Northwich, Cogshall, Comberbach, Davenham, Eaton, Great Budworth, Hartford, Leftwich. Marburv, Marston, Moulton, Northwich, Wailerscoat,

Witton-cum-Twambroks, Wincham and Winnington in Leftwich sessional division and the townships of Bostock, Clive, Groxton, Kinderton-cum-Hulme, Middlewich, Newton, Bavenscroft, Stanthorne, "Wharton and What­croft in Northwich sessional division.

No. 6.—^The Altrincham division, comprises the sessional divisions of Altrincham and Stockport (except so much as is comprised in Nos. 7 and 8 divisions) and so much of the borough of Stockport as is in the coimty of Chester.

No. 7.—^The Hyde division, comprises so much of the municipal borough of Stalybridge as is included in the county of Chester, and the townships of Bosden, Bred­bury, Brinnington (except the part included in the municipal borough of Stockport), Marple, Offerton, BomUey and Torkington in Stockport sessional division.

No. 8.—The Knutsford division, comprises the sessional divisions of Bucklow, Daresbury (except so much as is comprised in No. 5 division), Prestbury (except so much as is comprised in No. 3 division), Leftwich (except so much as is comprised in No. 5 division), so much of the municipal borough of Warrington as is in the county of Chester, and the townships of Allostock. Blackden, Brereton-cum-Smethwick,Byley-cum-Yatehouse,Church Hulme, Cotton, Cranage, Davenport, Goostrey-cum-Barmshaw, Kermincham, Leese, Mooresbarrow-cum-Parme, Somerford,Somerford Booths,Sproston,Swetten­ham and Twemlow in Northwich sessional division, and Disley, TaxaU and Yeardsley-cum-Whaley in Stockport sessional division.

Under the provisions of the above-mentioned Act the borough of Chester lost one member and the represen­tation of Macclesfield was merged into that of the county,

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. Altrincham division. Sir William John Crossley bart.

J .P. Glenfield, Altrincham ; Pull Woods, Ambleside, Westmorland; & Queen Anne's mansions S W & Reform club S W, London

Crewe division. Bight Hon. James Tomkinson D.L., J .P. WiUington haU, Tarporley; & Brooks's & National Liberal clubs S W, London

Eddisbury division, Harry Barnston esq. J.P. Crewe Hill, Farndon, Chester; & Junior Carlton chib S W, London

Hyde division, Francis Neilson esq. WoUerton. Hodnet, Shropshire ; & 13 Moore street, Chelsea, London S W

Knutsford division, Alan John Sykes esq. M.A., J .P . South view, Cheadle ; & 11 & 12 Park lane W & Carlton & Junior Carlton clubs S W, London

Macclesfield division, Lt.-Col. WiUiam Brocklehurst Brocklehurst J.P. Butley haU, Prestbury. Maccles­field ; & National Liberal club, London S W

Northwich division, John Fowler Leece Brunner esq. J .P. Sandiway house. Hartford. Northwich: & 43 HarrinKton gardens S W & Beform & National Liberal clubs S W, London

Wirral Division. Gershnm Stewart esq. ^Yhiteholme, Hoylake. Birkenhead; & Carlton & Conservative clubs S W, London

MILITARY. Cheshire is the head quarters of the Western Command,

particulars of which will He found at p. 223. The city is also the depot of Regimental district No. 22

(The Cheshire Regiment), which comprises the 1st & 2nd Battalions (22nd Foot), 3rd Special Beserve Battalion; the head quarters of the 3rd are at Chester. FuU particulars are given at p. 223

TEBEITOBIAL FORGE. Cheshire Territorial Force Battalion.

President, Col. the Duke of Westminster G.C.V.O. i6th Battalion London Regiment (Lord Lieut)

Chairman. Lieut.-Col. W. Bromley-Davenport D.S.O., T.D. Staffs Yeomanrv

Vice-chairman. Col. Sir W. G. Shakerley bart. T.D. 7th Battalion Cheshire Eegiment

Military Members. Lieut.-Col. F. J. Bonnalie, ^rd Welsh Brigade E.F.A Col. H. W. K. Bretherton V.D., 4th Battalion Cheshire

Eegiment Lieut -Col. E. W. Greg, 7th Battalion Cheshire Begt Col Lord A. H. Grosvenor T.D. Cheshire Yeomanry Gapt A. G. Hamilton, Welsh Border Mounted Brigade

Field Ambulance E.A.M.C. (T.F) Col H. E. L. Howard C.B. Cheshire (Eailway Batt.) E.E Col J G Johnson.jun.V.D. 6th Battalion Cheshire Eegt

CHESHIRE. [ K E L L Y * 8

Major J. L. McLean, Welsh Border Mounted Brigade Transport & Supply Column A.S. Corps

Col. A. E. Ommaney C.B Col. J. A. Saner V.D. 5th Battalion Cheshire Eegiment Lieut.-Col. H. P. Sykes, Denbighshire Yeomanry Major H. M. Wilson, Cheshire Yeomanry

Representative Members. County Council.

B. £ . B. Brocklebank esq Lt.-Col. J . W. H. Thorp V.D. late 5th Vol. Battalion

Cheshire Eegiment County Boroughs.

G. Christie-Miller esq. (Stockport)

A. M. Eobinson esq. (Bir­kenhead)

Lieut.-Col. T. J . Smith V.D. late ist . Vol. Bat­talion North Staffs Eegt. (Chester)

Co-opted Members. Lieut.-Col. W. Bromley-

Davenport D.S.O., T.D. Staffs Yeomanry (chair­man)

B. Brunner esq C. J. E. Cooke esq

W. H. HoUis esq H. Martin esq Col. Sir W. G. Shalcerley

bart . T.D. 7th Battalion Cheshire Eegt. (vice-chaii-man)

Secretary, Col. E. Thompson, late E.E. County Associa­tion Offices, Chester

Units Administered by the Association. Yeomanry.

Cheshire Denbighshire (1 Squadron)

Eoyal Artillery. 3rd Welsh Brigade Eoyal Field ArtUlery

1st & 2nd Cheshire Batteries 3rd Welsh Ammunition Column

Lancashire & Cheshire Eoyal Garrison Artillery (2 Companies).

Eoyal Engineers. Cheshire (Eailwav Battalion) Cheshire Field Co

Infantry. 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th Battalions Cheshire Eegiment

Army Service Corps. Welsh Border Mounted Brigade Transport & Supply

Colunan Cheshire Brigade Go

Eoyal Army Medical Corps. Welsh Border Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance

YEOMANEY. Cheshire (Earl of Chester ' s ) ; head quarters, 9 Old

Bank buUdings, Foregate street, Chester. Staff: — Lieut.-Col. Lord A. H. Grosvenor T.D. commanding ; Hon. Lieut.-Col. G. Wyndham M.P., T.D. major, second in command; Gapt. A. F. Fletcher (17th Hussars), ad ju tant ; Hon. Major George Cooper, quar te rmas ter ; Lieut. J . E. Phillips E.A.M.C. (T.F.) & Lieut. P. L. Armstrong M.B., E.A.M.C. (T.F.), medical officers; Vet.-Lieut. F. G. Edwards, veteri­nary officer; Eev. C. H. Prodgers (T.F.), chaplain; J. Lamb, regimental sergt.-major

Squadrons:—A, Major & Hon. Lieut.-Col. E. W. D. PhiUips-Brocklehurst T.D. commanding; Gapt. M. Egerton, second in command, Knutsford; B, Major the Duke of Westminster, commanding; Major & Hon. Lieut.-Col. W. 8. W. Badcliffe, second in com­mand, Ea ton ; C, Major H. M. Wilson, commanding; Gapt. E. N. H. Verdin, second in command, North­wich ; D, Gapt. A. M. E. Legh, commanding, Mac­clesfield

Denbighshire Hussars ; head quarters, Denbigh ; D Squadron, Major & Hon. Lieut.-Col. W. W. Cordeaux, commanding; Major D. A. C. Cockburn, second in command, 24 Clifton road, Tranmere

AETILLEEY. 3rd Welsh Brigade Royal Field Artillery ; head quarters,

Shipgate street, Chester. Staff:—Lieut.-Col. F. J. Bonnalie, commanding; Gapt. C. C. Barnes B.A. a d j u t a n t ; Lieut.-Col. G. Hollies M.D., V.D., E.A.M.C. (T.F.) , medical officer; Eev. J . H. Toogood M.A. (T.F.) , chaplain

1st Cheshire Battery, Shipgate street, Chester ; Major V. H . Dickson, commanding

2nd Cheshire Battery, Gapt. A. T. PoweU, commanding 3rd Welsh Ammunition Column, Shipgate street, Chester ; Gapt. Quartermaster W. T. Wliitley, com­manding

Lancashire & Cheshire Eoyal Garrison Artil lery; head quarters, 19 Low hill, Liverpool

Nos. 5 & 6 Companies, Drill haU, Magazine lane. New Brighton; Major T. H. Arden, commanding; Gapt. A. M. Pooley (No. 5 Co.) & Gapt. C. J. Luya (No. 6 Co)

ENGINEEES. Welsh Divisional Eoyal Engineers, Cheshire Brigade Co.

79a, Harrowby road, Birkenhead; Major B. L. Hutchin­son, commanding

Cheshire (Eailway Battalion) Eoyal Engineers ; head quarters & armoury, Wistaston road, Crewe. Staff:— Lieut.-Col. & Hon. Col. H. E. L. Howard C.B. com-manding ; Gapt. H. E. Greig E.E. ad ju tant ; Hon. Lieut. P. D. Mich6d, quartermaster ; Gapt. E. Gray E.A.M.C. (T.F.) , medical officer; Eev. W. Bidlake M.A. (T.F.), chaplain

Companies:—A, Gapt. F. A. Lemon; B, Gapt. E. Davenport; C, Gapt. J. A. Bowes; D, Gapt. & Hon. Major J. N. Jackson V .D. ; E, Gapt. & Hon. Major J. W. Beaumont & F, Gapt. W. F. Black, Wistaston road, Crewe

INFANTEY. CHESHIEE BEIGADE.

Head quarters, 22 Percy road, Chester. Brigade Commander, Col. A. E . Ommaney C.B Brigade-Major, Gapt. E. B. Barker Brigade Signalling Officer, Gapt. T. N. FenneU

The Brigade is composed of the four foUowing bat­talions :—

4th Battalion Cheshire Eeg imen t ; head quarters, Grange road west, Oxton, Birkenhead. Staff:— Lieut.-Col. & Hon. Col. H. W. K. Bretherton V.D. commanding; Hon. Lieut.-Col. M. C. Ellis V.D. & A. B. Hopps, majors; Gapt. T. A. Prentice, instructor of muske t ry ; Capt. H. E. P. Thomas, adjutant;

, quar te rmas te r ; Major C. T. Green E.A.M.C. (T.F. ) . Surg.-Capt. J. B. Yeoman M.D. & Capt. A. B . Wilson M.D., E.A.M.C. (T.F.) , medical officers

Companies:—A, Gapt. J . H. E. Evans ; B, Gapt. E. Marquis; G, Capt. J. A. Pember ton ; D, Capt. W. H. Marquis, Grange road west, Oxton. Birkenhead; E, Capt. A. M. Beckett, T r a n m e r e ; F, Capt. P. T. Wessel & G, Capt. T. A. Prentice, Union road, Lis­card & H, Capt. J. W. Newton, HeswaU

5th Battalion (Earl of Chester's) Cheshire Eegiment; head quarters, 8 Blackfriars, Chester. Staff:—Lieut.-Col. & Hon. Col. J. A. Saner V.D. commanding; J. E. G. Groves T.D. & G. F . Ashton, majors; Second Lieut. C. A. Price, instructor of musketry; Capt. F. B. Young, ad ju tan t ; Hon. Major T. A. Jones V.D. quartermaster

Companies:—A, Capt. Humphrey Watts , Ashley road, Hale ; B, Capt. W. A. V. Chur ton ; Eev. F . Edwards M.A. (T.F.), chaplain, 8 Blackfriars, Chester, & Section at Knutsford, Capt. F . L. FenneU ; C, Capt. Humphrey W a t t s ; Eev. C. C. Atkinson M.A., D.D. (T.F.), chaplain, two Sections at Sa le ; D, Capt. & Hon. Major F. O. Evans V.D. & Hartford; E, Capt. C. E. Bromley, 8 Blackfriars, Chester, with one Section at Booth Hill, L y m m ; F, Lieut. H. W. Guest, F rodsham; G, Lieut. B. E. WeissmiiUer, Greenway road, Buncorn & H, Capt. J. P. Jackson, Hartford

6th Battalion Cheshire Eeg iment ; head quarters . The Armoury, Shaw Heath, Stockport. Staff:—Lieut.-Col. & Hon. Col. J. G. Johnson, jun. V.D. command­i n g ; Hon. Lieut.-Col. E. E. McClure V.D. & G. H. Leah, ma jo r s ; Lieut. B. Bostron, instructor of muske t ry ; Capt. H. S. Bogers, ad ju t an t ; Hon. Capt. J. Bawlinson, quartermaster

Companies:—A, Capt. F. A. Leah ; B, Capt. G. Bow-bo t tom; Capt. E. E. McCarthy M.B., E.A.M.C (T.F.) medical officer; Eev. J. G. Bird (T.F.) , chap­lain, Walmsley street, Stalybridge; G. Capt. R. H. Brady; D, Capt. F . E ive t t ; E, Capt. W. Chaloner & F. Capt. H. Hesse ; Bev. J. H. Thorpe M.A., B.D. (T.F.), chaplain. The Armoury. Shaw Heath, Stock­port ; G, Capt. E . E. Dowson & H, Glossop, Derbyshire

7th Battalion Cheshire Eeg imen t ; head quarters. The DriU Hall, Albert street, Congleton. Staff:—Lieut.-Col. E, W. Greg V.D. commanding; H. Backhouse & , ma jo r s ; Capt. E. L. Boddy, ad ju tan t ; Hon. Lieut. A. T. NeweU, quar te rmas te r ; Lieut.-Col. C. Averill M.D., V.D., E.A.M.C. (T.F.) , medical officer

DIRECTORY.] CHESHIRE. Companies:—A, Capt. W. P. Beade & B, Capt. G. H.

Swindells, The DriU HaU, Albert street, Congleton; C, Capt. G. N, Heath, Bridge street, Macclesfield; D, Capt. J . K. Cooke, Bridge street, Macclesfield & Drill HaU, Winsford; F , Capt. W. M. Ford, Bridge street, Macclesfield; F , Capt. T. V. C. Thistlethwaite, Church lane, Nantwich; G, Capt. H. L. Moir, Crewe road, Sandbach & H, Capt. W. M. Ford, Church st. Wilmslow & Lewin street, Middlewich

ist Cadet Battalion Cheshire Eegiment, Northenden, Major E. Angus Humphreys, commanding; Hon. Lieut. F. Southern, quar te rmas ter ; Bev. F . c ! Lowry HamUton B.A. acting chaplain

Companies:—A & B, Capt. Percy Bean, King street east, Stockport; C, Lieut. & Acting Gapt. E . C. W. Parsons, Cheadle & D, Capt. W. F . McCann,Wilmslow

CADET COEPS.

Mostyn House School, Parkgate, Chester, A. G. Gren-fell, hon. captain

St. Aidan's Theological College, Birkenhead, Forest road, Claughton, erected in 1856 on a site of about 7 acres, purchased from the Birkenhead Commissioners for ;^9.325, is a large and handsome structure of brick, standing on a raised terrace, in the Tudor style, from designs by Mr. Wyatt , of London, and the late Mr. Henry Cole, of Birkenhead, architects, and includes a chapel, erected in 1882 at a cost of ;^3,5oo, from the designs of Mr. David Walker, architect, of Liverpool; this is of brick and stone, in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave and a small western tower con­taining one beU: the stained east window is a memorial to Eichard Bryars J .P . d. 1884; there are 250 s i t t ings; the chapel is open to the public and there are week­day and Sunday services during term t ime. The object of this coUege is to train candidates for holy orders in the Church of England in parochial duties, as well as to afford sound theological instruction. The college is available for 50 s tuden ts ; the view from the building presents a beautiful panorama of sea and land­scape, including Birkenhead park, the Wallasey penin­sula, and the entrances to the port of Liverpool. Eev. Arthur Tait M.A. principal; Eev. WUliam L. Walter M.A. vice-principal. •

The Cheshire Lunatic Asylum, on an eminence near the Liverpool road, near Chester, and erected in 1829 at a total cost, up to 1895, of ^^123,749, is a structure of brick with stone facings, three storeys in height, with a central administrative block of four storeys and two wings ; there are also buUdings used as shops for carpenters, engineers, tailors, shoe makers and uphol­sterers, bakehouses and other useful purposes, good airing grounds, and, close by, a farm of about 120 acres. There is a chapel with a tower containing a clock with chimes, built in 1856, and affording 250 sittings, and a residence for the superintendent. Extensive additions, including a large administrative block for the whole asylum, were made during the period 1896-8, so as to provide for 404 additional patients, at a cost of over ^£"90,000; further extensions to provide 400 pauper and 100 private patients, with a nurses' home : other addi­tions are about to be carried out (1910) at a cost of over ;^ioo,ooo. At the end of the year 1901 the asylum contained 982 patients, v iz . : 455 males and 527 females, and a staff of 116 nurses and attendants, but there is room for 1,035 patients. Galbraith HamUton GryUs M.B. and Ch.E.U.I medical superintendent; Patrick WiUiam Power L.B.C.P. & S. & L.M.Irel. & David James Jackson B.A., M.B., B.Ch.B.U.I. assistant medical officers; J. B. Thomson, Parr 's Bank, Chester, t reasurer ; Eev. Lancelot Groaisdale Agnew Edgeworth B.A. chaplain; Eev. Seraphim HounibaU, Catholic chaplain; Alexander Hornby, clerk to the asylum and committee of visitors.

The Park Side County Lunatic Asylum, about a mile from Macclesfield, on the Chester road, wae erected in 1S58-71, at a cost of about ^^150,000 and is a structure of red brick in the Italian style, from designs hy the late Mr. Griffith, architect, of Stafford ; i t is in two divisions, for males and females respectively, each division having its own infirmary and separate department for difficult cases ; the superintendent's house occupies the centre of the building ; the recreation and dining haU and offices adjoin the clock tower, which, on the north side, forms the principal entrance; there are also workshops for the pursui t of various trades, a laundry and washhouse, and attached is a farm of about 100 acres. A wing for 96 female epileptic patients was added in 1891 at a cost of about jQjtOoo. A new and isolated hospital for infectious j cases, erected at a cost of ^^3,000, was opened in July

1895, and contains 12 beds. A new wing for 50 male epUeptics and a nurses' home, for upwards of 30 nurses, were added in 1902. A new infirmary annexe, erected at a total cost of j^85,97i, was opened July 19, 1905; it is bmlt on the east side of the main building and will hold 220 additional patients. Two new detached blocks for 43 patients of each sex are now (1910) nearly com­pleted and a third block for 79 private patients of both sexes is also in course of erection. The asylum is supported by the union rates, and is at present (1910) available for about 1,026 pa t ien ts : there are also a few private pa t ien t s ; the yearly average is 522 males and 548 females. Thomas Steele Sheldon M.B.Lond., M.B.C.S.Eng. medical superintendent; John Cunning­ham McConaghey M.D. and Ch.B.Edin. first assistant medical officer; H. Dove Cormac M.B., M.S. (Madras), second assistant medical officer; George Gray Parkin M.B., Ch.B.Vict. third assistant medical officer; Beginald Rowland, t reasurer ; A. C. Procter, clerk to visitors; John WiUiam Lees, clerk and storekeeper; Mrs. Sarah Ann MUlington, housekeeper. The Asylum Church, erected at a cost of about ;^3,ooo, from designs by the same architect, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, tran­septs, organ chamber and vestry, and a western tur re t containing 2 smaU bells; the church has 400 si t t ings: the Eev. Harold Norman Lowndes M.A. of St. John's CoUege, Oxford, has been chaplain since 1908.

His Majesty's Prison, at Knutsford, is an extensive structure of br ick; there are ceUs for 606 males and 112 females. Major J. O. Nelson, governor; Bev. Arthur John Heard Eoulby M.A. chaplain; Bev. Albert Morrissy, Catholic chaplain; Theodore FenneU M.B.C.S. Eng. surgeon; Miss Elizabeth Flew, matron

COAL MINES, METALLIFEEOUS MINES & QUAEEIES ACT.

No. 7 Liverpool & North Wales District, Inspector, Henry Hall I.S.O. Eainhill, Lanes Assistant Inspectors, D. H. F, Mathews, Hoole, Chester

& 0 . E. Jones, 5 Spring gardens, Chester

CHAMBEES OF AGEICULTUEE & FABMEES' CLUBS IN ASSOCIATION.

Cheshire, Charles B. Davies, Eardswick haU, Middle­wich, sec

Cheshire Milk-Producers' Association, James Sadler, Crewe Gates farm, Crewe Green, Crewe, sec

Chester Farmers ' Club, Eichard S. Linnell, 6 Newgate street, Chester, sec

Wirral Farmers ' Club, Harry C. Nield, 9 MeUor road, Tranmere, Birkenhead, sec

CHAMBEES OF COMMEEGE. Macclesfield, Robert Brown, sec. Town hall, Macclesfield Northwich, H. J. Falk esq. president; Thomas Moore,

sec. Baron's quay, Northwich

FAIES & MAEKETS. Altrincham, market day, tuesday Audlem, a wake in October; market day, thursday Beeston, Bunbury, cattle fair on monday every week Birkenhead, market days, tuesday & friday Cheadle, wakes, first sunday after September 18 Chester,cheese fairs are held the third Wednesday in each

month. There are also fairs every month for horses, usually held on thursday; market days, Wednesday & Saturday; weekly market for horned cattle, sheep & pigs on thursday

Congleton, fairs on May 12, for pleasure, horses & cattle & November 22, for horses & ca t t le ; market day, Saturday

Crewe, market days, monday, friday & Saturday; cattle market every monday

Frodsham, fairs on last tuesday in AprU & last thurs­day in October

Hyde, May 16 & November 15; wakes, first Saturday after September 5 ; market day, Saturday

Knutsford, fairs on April 23, for horses, cattle, sheep Jc pigs, "Whit-tuesday & November 8, for horses & cattle ; market day, Saturday

Lymm, fairs on AprU 3 & November 5 Macclesfield, fairs on third tuesday in February, March

6, May 6, June 22, July 11, August 12, October 4, November 11 & December 2 3 ; market days, tuesday & Saturday

Mottram, April 27 & October 31 Nantwich, fairs on first thursday in April, June, Sept.

& December; cheese fair first thursday in each month, except J anua ry ; market day, Saturday

Northwich, fairs on April lo, August 2 ; market day, fri Over, fairs on first Wednesday after May 12 & first Wed­

nesday after September 20 Prestbury, fairs on April 28 & October 22 for cattle Buncorn, fairs on first monday in November; for

pleasure, Whit-monday; market day, Saturday Sale, marke t for butter , eggs, vegetables &c. on thurs­

day & Saturday Sandbach, fairs on Easter tuesday, first thursday after

September 11 & December 28, the latter a cattle & pleasure fair & also for hiring servants; market days, thursday & Saturday

CHESHIRE. [KELLY'S

Stalybridge, fairs on the last monday in each month; annual prize fair first Saturday in September; wakes, first Sunday after July 17 ; market day, Saturday

Stockport, fairs on January 1, first friday in February, March 4 & 25, May i , first friday in June, August, September & December, July 9 & October 23 ; market days, friday & Saturday

Sutton. Macclesfield, fairs on April 4 & September 4 Tarporley, fairs on May i , August 1, first monday after

August 24, & December 11, for cattle & pedlery Wilmslow, fairs on third monday in April & third mon­

day in October; open market every thursday

The following table shows the acreage under each kind of crop, and the number of horses, cattle, sheep and pigs in Cheshire, as taken from the Agricultural Returns for 1909 :—

Wheat Barley or here Oats Rye Beans Peas Potatoes Turnips and swedes Mangold Cabbage Small fruit :—

Strawberries Currants and gooseberries Others, including mixed areas

Orchards:— Apples Pears Others, including mixed areas

Other crops Clover, sainfoin and grasses :—

For hay Not for hay

Permanent pasture:— For hay Not for hay

Woods and plantations

16,384 1,022

62,214 2,323

273 233

22,887 9.847 5.423 1,207

573 243 495

989 262 624

1,486

58,723 15,521

89,273 245.704 24,665

LIVE STOCK.

Horses for agriculture and brood mares Unbroken horses, one j 'ear and above. . . .

,, ,, under i year Cows and heifers: —

In milk In calf but not in milk

Other cattle, two years and above ., ,, one year and under two ... ,, „ under one year

Ewes kept for breeding Sheep, one j^ear and above

,, under one year Sows kept for breeding Other pigs

20,681 4.951 1,814

103.843 12,723 10,304 27,306 30,579 43.049 52,362 49,650 7,127

65.075

Agricultural holdings:—

Above 1 and not exceeding 5 acres 3,040

Above 5 and not exceeding 50 acres 5,564

Above 50 and not exceeding 300 acres 3.335 Above 300 acres 78

12,017 Total acreage of the county 657,825

Rateable value ;^5,538,i54

DIBECTOKY.] CHESHIRE.

CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL Local Government Act i

Under the above Act, Cheshire (except the County Boroughs of Birkenhead, Chester and Stockport) is a separate and distinct administrative county (sec. 46- l i ) , governed by a County Council, consisting of chairman, 19 aldermen and 6i counciUore,

The Chairman, by virtue of his office, is a justice of the peace for the county, without qualification (sec. 46).

The police for the county is under the control of a standing joint committee of the Quarter Sessions and the County Council, appointed as therein mentioned (sec. 9).

888, 51 & 52 Vict, c, 41,

The coroners for the county are elected by the County CouncU, and the clerk of the peace appointed by such joint committee, and may be removed by them (sec. 83-2).

The clerk of the peace for the county is also the clerk of the County Council (sec. 83-1).

The administrative business of the county (which would, if this Act had not been passed, have been transacted by the justices) is now transacted by the County Council.

Meet at Chester Castle.

Chairman, Col. George Dixon J.P. Astle .hall, Chelford, Crewe.

Vice-C hairman, William Hodgson, HehnsvUle, Crewe.

ALDEBMEN.

Retire in 1913. Barlow Frank J .P. Woodville, Marple, Stockport Booth Charles Henry J .P. The Lakes, Dukinfield Dixon Col. George J .P. Astle haU, Chelford Evans Jn. Jas. J .P . Brackenwood, Bebington, Birkenhead Norman Alfred Robert J .P . Heath house, Buncorn Parr Joseph Charlton J .P . Grappenhall Heves,Warmgtn Thorp Col. John Walter Hook J .P . Pear ' Tree house,

Macclesfield Verdin Sir Joseph bart. D.L., J .P. Garnstone castle,

Weobley, Herefordshire Wright Albert Tomlinson, Tyn-y-Ehos, nr.Chirk,Euabon

Retire in 1916. Barlow Sir Frank Emmott bart. M P . Torkington lodge,

Stockport BuUey Thomas Baffles J .P. Breck Hey, Mount Pleasant

road, Liscard Cheetham John Frederick J .P. Eastwood, Staljhridge France-Hayhurst Col. Charles Hosken J.P. Bostock haU,

Middlewich Hewitt David Basil J .P. Grove mount, Davenham Hodgson William, Helmsville, Ciewe McCracken William, Englesea house, Crewe Wall George J .P. Heatherdene, West Kirby Whiston "William, Langley, near Maccleslield WUbraham Hugh Edward J .P. Delamere ho. Northwich

COUNCILLORS,

Electoral Division. Hyde:—

Newton Ward. . . . Werneth Ward...

Lymm Macclesfield:

Division i Division 2

Division 3

Division 4

Malpas Marple

Mottram - in -Long­dendale

Electoral Division. Names & Addresses. Alderley Ernest Gerard Leycester J .P. Mobberley

Old hall, Knutsford Altrincham William Agar Renshaw ,T.P, 16 Old

Market place, Altrincham Appleton Roger Charlton Parr B.A. , J . P . Grappen-1 Knutsford ,

hall Heyes, Warrington Astbury George Barrington Baker-Wilbraham

M.A., J.p. Rode hall. Scholar Green, Stoke-on-Trent

Audlem Simon Gleave,Dodcott-cum-\Nilkesley, near Whitchurch. Salop

Bebington Goard Squarey Pain, 2 Townfield lane. Lower Bebington

BoUington Francis Fredk. Grafton, Barley grange, BoUington, near Macclesfield

Bowdon Joseph Watson Sidebotham, Langham road, Bowdon

Bramhall John Bateman, Greystead, BramhaU iane, Bramhall, Stockport ] Middlewich.

Bredbury John Wild, Bredbury house, Bredbury, Stockport

Cheadle W^illiam Haslam Cross, Milton cottage, 43 Gatlej' rd. Etchells-in-Stockport

Chester Castle Thomas Gibbons Frost, Mollington haU, j Nantwich ... Chester 1

Church Coppenhall Richard Nnrman Harrison Verdin J . P . Neston Stoke manor, Nantwich I

Congleton Sir John Geoffrey Shakerley bart. J . P , | Northwich .. Somerford park, Congleton !

Crewe:— Runcorn :— Central Ward ... Rev. Walter Bidlake, Christ Church! North

vicarage, Wellington square, Crewe North Ward Charles Herbert Pedley J . P . West­

minster buildings, MiU street, Crewe South Ward William McNiell J . P . 8 Herdman street,

Crewe W e s t w a r d Charles Wilson J . P . I Delamere street

west, Crewe Daresbury Robert Harold Posnett J . P . The Mount,

Runcorn Davenham <feGhurch

Hulme Rev. John Hornby Armitsteadji. A., J . P . Cranage, Holmes Chapel

Dukinfield :— East Thomas Hodgetts Gordon, Ivy Bank,

Dukinfield West Joseph Cooke, Thorncliffe, Dukinfield

Frodsham John Norcross, Kingsley hall, Kingsley Hyde :—

Godley Ward George Frederick Drinkwater, West villa, Stockport road, Hyde

South

Sale.

Sandbach

Stalybridge:— Division i ....

Division 2

Division 3

Sutton

Tarporley ,

Tattenhall.

Names & Addresses.

Walter Newton, Lodge la. Newton,Hyde Rev. John Alaric Davys, .st George's

vicarage, H3'de Lt.-Col. Hubert Cornwall Legh J . P .

High Legh hall, Knutsford SI. Walter Gould J . P . Foxley hall,Lymm

Wm. Smale, Chester road, Macclesfield John Charles Close-Brooks, West Bank,

Upton, Macclesfield Walter Brown, Upton lodge, Upton,

Macclesfield William Brocklehurst Brocklehurst

M.P., J.P. Butley hall, MacL-Iesfield Isaac AUenBrown,Ridley hall,Tarporley James Thomas Pott, Market street,

Marple, Stockport George Garfit, Stanthorne hil!, Mid­

dlewich

Rev. Will'am Alfred Pemberton, The Vicarage, Mottram-in-Longdendale

Charles Edward Davenport J . P . Ingle-wood, Park road, Nantwich

Ralph Eric Royds Brocklebank J . P . Poulton Royd, Bebington

Roscae Brunner J .P . Belmont hall, Great Budworth, Northwich

Joseph Stokes, Rocksavage grange, Glifton, Runcorn

James Pritchard J . P . The Elms, Higher Runcorn, Runcorn

John Morley J . P . Moor Lea, Derbyshire road. Sale

Rev, John Richard Armitstead, The ^•ical•age, Betchton, Sandbach

Col. A. Sidebottom V.D., J .P . Heyrod cottage, near Stalybridge

Rev. James Grant Bird, Albion house, 52 Huddersfield road, Stalybridge

John Oliver Kerfoot, 220 Cheetham HUl road, Dukinfield

Thomas Clayton Toler J . P . Taxal lodge, Whaley Bridge, Stockport

Charles Edward Parton, Haughton Hall farm, Tarporley

Richard Pedley Walley J . P . Cotton Abbots, near Chester

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Electoral Division. Names & Addresses, Timperley John Arnold J , P . Belmont, Timperley,

Altrincham AN'allasey No. i Walter Ward Piatt, Warrendene,Mount

road. New Brighton Wallasey No. 2 John Oldershaw J . P . Rolleston house,

Victoria road, New Brighton James Chester, Westlands, Lyndhurst

road, WaUasey William Clarke Currie, 75 Sea Bank

road, Liscard George Hmiter Peers J , P . Millthwaite,

Wallasey No. 3. .

WaUasey No. 4..

Wallasey No. 5.

Electoral Division. Names & Addresses. Weaverham Joseph WiUiam Smith J . P . Ivy house,

Weaverham West Kirby John Fergus-Smith J . P . Birkenhead

road, Hoylake Willaston George Arthur Pedley, Winterley house,

Haslington Wilmslow Theodore Crewdson J . P . Spurs haH,

Styal Winsford John Rigby J . P . GreviUe lodge, Wins­

ford Witton Henry Bratt j , p . Woodlands, Hartford

The Breck, Wallasey L I S T OF THE MEMBERS OF CHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY, AND THE ELECTORAL

DIVISIONS FOB WHICH THEY RESPECTIVELY SIT.

Name. Electoral Division, j Legh Lt,-Col, H. G. J.p Knutsford j Leycester E. J. J . P Alderley McNieU W, J . P Crewe, South Ward

I Morley John J . P Sale ' Newton W Hyde, Newton Ward Norcross J Frodsham

Name. Electoral Division. ArmitsteadRev. J.H.5i..4.,j.p. Davenham & Church Hulme Armitstead Rev. J. R Sandbach Arnold J. J.p Timperley Baker.^^•ilbraham G. B.

M.A., J.p Astbury Bateman J Bramhall Bidlake Rev. W Grewe, Central Ward Bird Rev. J. G Stalybridge, No. 2 Bratt H. J . P Witton Brocklebank K. E. R. J . P ... Neston Brocklehurst W. B. M.P . , J . P . Macclesfield, No. 4 Brown I. A Malpas Brown W Macclesfield, No. 3 Brunner R. J . P Northwich Chester J WaUasey No. 3 Close-Brooks J. C Macclesfield, No. ^ Cooke J West Dukinfield Crewdson T. J . P Wilmslow Gross W. H Gheadle Currie W. C WaUasey No. 4 Davenport C. E. J .P Nantwich Dav3's Rev. J A Hyde, Werneth Ward Drinkwater G. F Hyde, Godley Ward Fergus-Smith J. J .P West Kirby Frost T. G Chester Castle Garfit G Middlewich Gleave S Audlem Gordon T. H Dukinfield (East) Gould S. W. J.p Lymm Grafton F. F BoUington Kerfoot J. O Stalybridge, No. 3

Oldershaw J . J . P Wallasey No. 2 Pain C. S Bebington Parr R. C. B.A. , J . P Appleton Parton G. E Tarporlev Pedley C. H. J . P Crewe, North Ward Pedley G. A WUlaston Peer.s G. H. J . P Wallasey No. 5 Pemberton Rev. W. A Mottram-in-Longdendale Piatt W . W Wallasey No. i Posnett R. H Daresbury Pott J. T Marple Pritchard J. J . P Runcorn (South) Renshaw W. A . J . P Altrincham Rigby J. J . P Winsford Shakerley Sir J. G. bart. J . P Congleton Sidebotham J. W Bowdon Sidebottom Col. A. V.D., J . P . Stalybridge, No. i Smale W Macclesfield No. i Smith J. W, J.p Weaverham Stokes J Runcorn North) Toler T, C, J . P Sutton Verdin R. N. H. J . P Church CoppenhaU WaUeyR. P. J . P TattenhaU WUdJ Bredbury Wilson G. J . P Crewe, West Ward

PRINCIPAL COUNTY OFFICIALS.

Clerk to the CouncU, Reginald Potts, Northgate house, Chester

Deputy Clerk to the Council, Hubert Potts, Northgate house, Chester

County Treasurer, James Robertson Thomson, Parr 's Bank Limited, Chester

County Surveyor & Bridgemaster, Harry Freestone Bull, Chester Castle

County Architect, Henry Beswick F.E.I.B.A. Gros­venor buildings, Newgate street, Chester

County Analyst, District Agricultural Analyst, under the Fertilisers & Feeding Stuff's Act, 1893, Joseph Carter Bell, Bank house. The Cliff, Higher Brough­ton, Manchester

Ccunty Auditor, James Williams, The Castle, Chester County Medical Officer of Health & Chief School Medical

Officer, Meredith Young M.D.,C.M.Edin., Dip.San.Sci. Vict., D.P.H., E.C.P.S.Eng. County Education offices, City road, Chester

Director of Education, Eichard P. Ward, County Educa­tion Offices, City road, Chester

Assistant Director of Education, John Henry Howitt, County Education Offices, City road

Land Agent, W. H. Lancaster F.S.I . 49 Northgate st. Chester

Chief Inspector of Weights & Measures, W. D. Laird, Chester Castle

Chief Veterinary Inspector,James Laithwood M.B.C.V.S. Alcumlow, Moreton, Congleton

Coroners. Chester district, James C. Bate, Old Bank chambers,

Foregate street, Ches ter ; deputy, T. Moore Dutton, 19 Newgate street, Chester

Halton Manor district, Thomas Ridgway, 2 Cairo street, Warrington ; deputy, Edward Aubrey White, 3 Egypt street, Warrington

Knutsford district, Hercules Campbell Yates, i Ex­change street, Macclesfield; deputy, Charles Blunt, 2 King Edward street, Macclesfield

Stockport district, Alfred Ernest Ferns, 51 St. Peters-gate. Stockport; deputy, John Astley K. Ferns, 51 St. Petersgate, Stockport

Main Boad Surveyors, Macclesfield district, John Tho3. ^oyd, 55 Beech lane, Macclesfield; Nantwich dis­tr ict , Harold Peerman, Glencross, Wellington road, Nantwich; Northwich district, Ar thur LinneU, Left­wich cottage, Northwich; Wirral district, Eichard Pardee, Merton, South drive, Heswall

Veterinary Inspectors under the " Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts " with their Districts :—Altrincham, Archibald MunroM.E.C.V.S. 1 Osborne rd.Altrincham; Ashton-under-Lyne, Joseph HaU M.B.C.V.S. 42 Scot­land st. Ashton-under-Lyne; Birkenhead, Wm. Dobie M.B.C.V.S. 13 Atherton st. Birkenhead; Bowdon, Hy. C, Harrison M,E.C.V.S, The Downs, Bowdbn; Cheadle & Northenden, John J . Garside M.B.C.V.S, 10 Lyme st. Stockport; Chester, James Storrar M.B.C.V.S. 27 Newgate street, Ches ter ; ChUder Thornton, William Knight Barron M.B.C.V.S. Eoslyn, ChUder Thornton, Chester ; Congleton, Alfred Holbum M.B.C.V.S. 56 High street, Congleton; Crewe, Peter Manud M.B.C.V.S. I South street, Crewe; Hazel Grove-cum-Bramhall, James Hart M.B.C.V.S. 16 Millgate, Stockport ; Hoylake-cum-West Kirby, Samuel Oxton Langley M.B.C.V.S. 26 & 28 Jackson street, Birken­head ; Knutsford, James Marshall M.B.C.V.S. Heath side, Knutsford; Macclesfield, W. J. Wagstaffe M.B.C.V.S. 2 Church street west, Macclesfield; Malpas, Henry Barnes M.B.C.V.S. Ebnal house, Malpas; Middlewich, Eichard Shepherd M.B.C.V.S. 64 Wheelock street, Middlewich; Nantwich, James WUson M.B.C.V.S. Barker street, Nantwich; North­wich, Albert Henry DarweU M.B.C.V.S. Witton road, Northwich & Thomas Eastwood M.B.C.V.S. 134 Witton street, Nor thwich; Sandbach, George Boulton M.B.C.V.S. 20 Crewe road, Sandbach; Tattenhall, Thomas M-cGhee M.B.C.V.S. Laurel Bank, Tattenhall, Ches ter ; Tarvin, Bobert Price M.B.CV.S . Tarvin, Chester ; Warrington, Hugh Ferguson M.B.C.V.S. Suez street, War r ing ton ; Wilmslow, Samuel Lomas M.B.C.V.S. Grove street, WUmslow; Winsford, Her­bert Bibbey M.B.C.V.S. Elm grove. Swallow lane, Winsford

D I R E C T O R Y . ! CHESHIRE. 11

MAGISTRATES FOR THE COUISTTT l i O B D L I E U T E N A N T A N D GUSTOS R O T U L O R U M ,

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, Eaton hall, Chester ; & 33 Upper Grosvenor street, London W.

V I C E - L I E U T E N A N T , LORD EGERTON OF TATTON, Tatton park, Knutsford ; & 9 Seamore place, Mayfair, London W.

C H A I R M A N OF Q U A R T E R S E S S I O N S , SIR HORATIO LLOYD B.A. 8 Stanley place, Chester.

Marked tbus t s re also Deputy Lieutenants. Agnew Charles Swain esq. Davenham lodge, Northwich

• Agnew Ernest esq. The Moss, Great Warford, Knutsford Aldersey Hugh esq. B.A. Aldersey hall, Chester Allen Bulkeley esq. West Lynn, Dunham road,Altrincham Allen Russell esq. Davenham ball, Northwich Anson Bear-Admiral Algernon Horatio Antrobus Lieut.-Col. John Coutts, Eaton hall, Congleton Arden-Baillie-Hamilton Capt. the Hon. Henry Eobert,

Ardeme haU, Tarporley Armitage George Faulkner esq. Stamford, Church st.

Altrincham Armitage Ziba esq. Newton bank, Preston Brook, near

Warrington Ai-mitstead Bev. John Hornby M.A. The Vicarage,Holmes

Chapel Arnold John esq. Belmont, Timperley, Altrincham Ashton Alfred esq. Forest hill. Forest road, Tarporley Ashton Edmund esq Ashton Thomas Gair esq. M.P. Flowery Field, Hyde; &

39 Princes gardens, London S W Ashworth Alfd. esq. Horsley hall, Gre8ford,Denbighshire Ashworth Francis esq. The Mount, Legh rd. Knutsford Aspland Arth. Brook esq. Whitegates, Gee Cross, Hyde Atkinson James esq. V.D. Mirion house, Crewe Avifion James esq. 13 King street, Dukinfield Baker-Wilbraham George Barrington esq. M.A. Bode

haU, Stoke-on-Trent Bancroft James esq. Town lane, Dukinfield Bancroft John esq Bancroft William esq. Darnhall, Winsford Barber Jn . esq. Bengairn, Grove road, Wallasey, B'head fBarbour George esq. M.A. Bolesworth castle, Tatten­

hall, Chester Barbour Eobert esq. M A . Bankhead, Broxton, Chester Barlow Frank esq. WoodviUe, Marple, Stockport Barlow Sir John Emmott bart. M.P. Torkington lodge,

near Stockport Barlow Wm. Wycliffe esq. M.A. Pitt manor.nr.Winchstr Barnston Harry esq. M.P. CreAve Hill, Farndon, Chester Barrymore Lord P.C. Fota, Queenstown, Ireland ; & 20

Hill street, London W Baskervyle-Glegg John esq. Wistaston hall, Nantwich Battersby William John esq. Strathclyde, Stockport Baxter Thomas esq. The Bock, HiU Cliff, nr.Warrington Bayley James esq. "Willaston hall, Nantwich Bayley-Worthington Gibbon esq. Town Thorns, Eucby Bazley .Sir Thomas Sebastian bart . ELilmorie, Ilsham

drive, Torquay Bell Alfred esq. Bramhall lodge, Stockport BeU Charles esq. Norley haU, Frodsham, Warrington BeU Henry esq. Greenfield, Grange lane. West Kirby tBeU Henry esq. Heathfield, Stockport Bell William esq. Butland house, St. George's mount .

New Brighton, Birkenhead Bellyse Edwia Beginald esq. M.A. Oakfield, Stapeley,

Nantwich Bennett Samuel Armytage esq. Burnside, Byley's lane,

Alderley Edge, Manchester Benton Charles Henry esq. The Terrace, Knutsford Bingham Wm. esq. Lingdale ho, Lingdale rd.Birkenhead Birchenough John Henry esq. C.M.G. 79 Eccleston

square, London S W Birchenough WiUiam Taylor esq. Gawsworth haU, near

Macclesfield Birley Hugh Arthur esq. Woodside, Knutsford Doddington Henry esq Boosey WiUiam esq. Brookfield, Middlewich Booth Charles Henry esq. The Lakes. Dukinfield Boston Francis esq. Halton grange, Buncorn Bottomley James esq. The Glent, Stalybridge Boyd Alexander Charles esq. 51 Pont st. London S W

Bradbury His Honor Judge James Kinder M.A. Parkfield, Altrincham

Bradwell Chas. Dennis esq. Higher Daisy bank, Gongletn Bratt Henry esq. Woodlands, Hartford, Northwich Bratt WUliam Miles esq. Eoseland, Chester rd.Northwch Brierley Thomas Booth esq. Laburnum house, Tatten­

hall, Chester tBrocklebank Ealph esq. Haughton haU, Tarporley Brocklebank Ealph Eric Eoyds esq. Poulton Eoyde,

Bebington, Birkenhead tBrocklebank Thomas esq. Wateringbury pi. Maidstone Brocklehurst WUliam Brocklehurst esq. B.A., M.P. But­

ley haU, Prestbury, Macclesfield fBromley-Davenport Lt.-Col. William D.S.O. Gapes­

thorne hall, Crewe fBrooke Sir Eichard Marcus bart. Norton priory, Hal­

ton, Buncorn Brooks Hon. Marshall Jones M.A. Portal, Tarporley Uroughton Sir Delves Louis bart.Doddington hl.Nantwch Brown Isaac Allen esq. Eidley hall, Tarporley Brown His Honor Judge Beginald K.C., LL.B. 131 Vic­

toria street, London S W Brownson George esq. Burnside, Osborne road, Hyde Brunner John Fowler Leece esq. M.P. Sandiway house,

Northwich ; & 43 Harrington gardens, London S W Brunner Boscoe esq. B.A. Belmont hall, Northwich BuUey Thomas Baffles esq. Breck Hey, Mount Pleasant

road, Liscard, Birkenhead Bullock William Douglas esq. Toolerstone, Sandiway,

Northwich Burder Henry Charles esq. The Elms, Acton grange,

Warrington Burgess George esq. Beaconhurst, Netherton, Warringtn Callender Arthur Wm. esq. Ashfield, Lymm,Warrington Carlisle Charles Stewart esq. Brookside, Alderley Edge,

Manchester Carr John Lindley esq. Broad Oaks, Washway road. Sale Garrington Wm. Edv-d. esq. 8 Adswood lane we. Stockpt Carroll WiUiam esq. Brookfield, Moughland rd. Buncorn Cartwright Eichard William esq. Park farm, Tarporley

road, Whitchurch, Salop Carver Ernest esq. Poise house. Hazel Grove, Stockport Carver Frederick William esq. Oakhurst, Bexton.Knutsfrd Carver WUliam Oswald esq. Cranage hall. Holmes

Chapel, Grewe Catto James Kennedy esq. Willaston ho. nr. Chester Cawley Hugh esq. Adderbury house, Banbury Charlton Alfred esq. Bed hall. Hale, Altrincham Charlton Henry esq. Tytherington hall. Macclesfield Cheetham .Tohn Fredk. esq. B.A. Eastwood, Stalybridge Clanahan Hugh Gumming esq. The Wood, Park drive.

Hale, Altrincham Clarke John esq. i Cross street, Ashton-upon-Mersey Clarke Thomas esq. Leahurst , Carlisle rd. Eastbourne Clegg Alfred Rowland esq. Handforth house, Handforth,

Manchester Olegg Neville esq. Oldfield Brow, Dunham Massey,

Altrincham Close-Brooks John Brooks esq.Birtles hall,Chelford,Grewe Cocks John esq. Brookside, Eomiley. Stockport Comber George esq. Bowley Brow, Knutsford Gongreve Hubert esq. South bank, Moore, Warrington Cooke Edmund esq. Bankfield. Mottram road, Hyde Cooke George, Kingscroft. TattenhaU, Chester Cooke Joseph esq. Thorncliffe house, Dukinfield Cotton Col. The Hon. Eichard Southwell George Staple-

ton-, Carlton club, London S W tCotton-JodreU Col. Edward Thomas Davenant C B .

Beasehea*h hall. Nantwich Cbulson WUliam Lisle Blenkinsopp esq. Newbrough pk.

Fourstones, Northumb Court WiUiam Boylance esq. Manor house, Middlewich

12 CHESHIRE. [KELL'i '{J

Cox Eustace Richardson esq. South WraxaU manor, Bradford-on-Avon, WUts

Cox Joseph Peter esq. Ty Gwyn, Knutsford Craig William Young esq. Eichmond house, Grosvenor

Toad, Wrexham Craigmile Alex. esq. M.A.,M.D. Cluny,Penkett rd.Liscrd Cresswell Arthur Mann esq. Hightield, Church lane,

Marple, Stockport Crewdson Theodore esq. The Spurs, Wood end, Styal,

Handforth, Manchester Crosfield Ernest Morland esq. Cossington house,Cossing-

ton, Bridgwater Crosfield Joseph John esq. Netherdale, Frodsham Cross Viscount G.C.B., G.C.S.L, P.C., F.R.S. Eccleriggs,

Broughton-in-Furness; & 12 Warwick sq. London S W Cross Hon. John Edward,West hall,High Legh,Knutsfrd Crossley Sir WUliam John bart . M.P. Glenfield,

Altr incham; & Queen Anne's mansions, London S W Crow Geo. Busk esq. Stoneleigh, Highfield South, Rock

Ferry, Birkenhead 'Crum William Graham esq. Thornleigh bank, Glasgow d r y e r John esq. Ashton-under-Lyne : Cunliffe Peter Gibson esq. Dunedin, Handforth, M'chstf Daintry George Percival esq. Oaklands, North Roda,

Congleton 1 Dakin George esq. Arlington house, Latchford Withoutj,

Warrington ; Darbyshire Alfred esq. Woodgrange, Disley, Stockport! Davenport Charles Edward esq. Inglewood, Park road,,

Nantwich Davenport Thomas esq. Oak house, Northenden Davenport-Handley John William Handley esq. Clipsham

haU, Oakham, Rutland Davies Charles Brereton esq. Eardswick haU, Minshull

Vernon, Middlewich j Davies Geo. Eeynolds esq. Forest hill, Hartford.Nrthwcb Deacon S tuar t esq. Gorse cliff.Warren drive,New Brgbtiji Deakin John Wm. esq. Braeside, Chester rd. Northwich De Knoop Jn. Jul ius Jersey esq. Calveley hall,Tarporley Delamere Lord, Carlton club, London S W Dewhurst Gerard Powys esq. Oughtrington park, Lymm,

Warrington Dewhurst Harry esq. Dale Fords, Sandiway, Northwich Dewhurst William Arthur esq. Brook house,Warringtoh Dixon Edward Wilbraham esq. Bowmere, Tarporley +Dixon Lt.-Ool. George, Astle hall, Chelford, Crewe Donnell Joseph esq. Park hill, Disley, Stockport Duckworth Joseph B. esq. The Heys, Eas tham, Birknhd Dudson James Thomas esq.Ivy ho.Alsager.Stoke-on-Trnt Dunkerley Frank Brookhouse esq. Graythwaite, Hale,

Altrincham Dunn John Eobertson esq. The Cliff, Wellington road.

New Brighton Dutton William Joseph esq. Lindum house, Nantwich Eardley Wilmot esq. Wistaston house, Nantwich Edelsten John Malin esq. Quernfield, Grappenhall, War­

rington ' fEgerton of Tatton Lord (vice-lieut.), Tatton park!,

Knutsford; & o Seamore place, London W j tEgerton Sir Philip Henry Brian Grey- bart. Oulton

park, Tarporley ', tEgerton-Warburton Piers esq. B.A.Arley hall.Northwch Elliot John esq. Sunnyside, Hoylalte, Birkenhead j Elverston Harold esq. The Dingle, Bramhall park;,

Bramhall, Stockport Emberton John esq. Brockton hall, Ecclt shall. Staffs Entwisle Edward esq. Woodlands, Ashton-upon-Meisev Ethelston Cn.pt. Eobert Wicksted. The BoUing, Malpa.s Evans Sir Edward, Spital Old hall, Bromborough,

Birkenhead Evans John James esq. Brackenwood, Higher Bebington,

Birkenhead Evans-Lloyd Edward esq. V.D. Stanley house. Chester Fearn Geo. esq. Overdale, Dean Bow, Wilmslow, M'Chstr Feilden Capt. Percy Henry Guy, Cokethorpe park, Wit­

ney, Oxon Fenna .John esq. Bestwood, Newton-by-Chester Fentem ]Mark esq. Beechwood, Stalybridge Ferguson John Smith esq. Thornton lodge, Thornton

Hough, Chester Fernley Col. George Arthur V.D. Westwood, Buxton,

Derbyshire Fletcher William esq. Spring view. Higher Whitley,

Warrington Flinn Fredk. Woolven esq. Greenheys,Grove rd.Wallasey Forwood Sir William Bower, Bromborough hall,Birkenhd fFrance-Hayhurst Col. Charles Hosken, Bostock hall,

Middlewich France-Hayhurst Edward esq. Iddon, Bronygart^h, Bua-

bon, N. Wales France-Hayhurst Capt. Frederick Charles, Bostock hall,

Middlewich

France-Hayhurst WilUam Hosken esq. Bostock hall, Middlewich

Fri th James Mason esq. Linden lodge, Euncorn Froggatt David esq. 12 Gatefield street, Crewe Frost Francis Aylmer esq. Grappenhall haU, nr.Warringtn Frost James Garret t esq. Boughton hall, Chester Frost John Meadows esq. Upton Lawn, Chester Gaddum Hy. Edwin e«q. The Priory, Bowdon.Altrnchm Gair John Hamilton esq. Lit t le Hey, Dibbensdale,Brom-

borough, Birkenhead GaUoway Edward Napier esq . Galloway Henrv esq. The Shiel, Hale, Altrincham Garfit George esq. Stanthorne hiU, Middlewich Garforth WiUiam Edward esq. M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S. Sny-

dale hall, Normanton Gartside John Edmund esq. Moorlands, Stalybridge Gartside-Tipping Lieut.-Col. Eobert Francis C.B. Daveii-

port hall, Congleton . , • , 1 x-j Gillies Andrew Archer esq. Mar lodge, Alderley Edge,

Gladstone Henry NeviUe esq. Burton Manor, Chester Godson Alfred M.A., M.B. Cheadle ho. High st. Cheadle GoUand Alfred esq. 18 Church street, Altrincham Goodson Alfred Lassam esq. Norbury Booths, Knutsford Gould Samuel Walker esq. Foxley haU,Lymm,Wairngtn Grace John esq. Whitbv haU, Chester Grafton John Hunt esq. Overdale, Dunham Massey,

Altrincham Graveson Michael Tyson esq. 41 Dunraven road. West

Kirby, Birkenhead fGreenall Sir Gilbert bart . Walton hall, Warrington Greening Linnaeus esq. Fairlight,GrappenhaU,Warrngtn Greenwell George Clementson esq. Beechfield, Poynton,

Stockport Greg Ernest WiUiam esq. Norcliffe haU, Styal, Hand-

forth, Manchester Greg Henry PhUips esq. Oak Brow, Handforth,M'chester Greg Capt. Robert Alexander, Quarry bank. Hand-

forth, Manchester Griffith Capt. Edward Wynne, Tiresford, Tarporley Griffith Edward Waldegrave esq. Tiresford, Tarporley Grimke-Drayton Theodore Drayton esq. Clifford manor,

Newent, Glo'stersh Grindley WUliam Harry esq. Parkfields, Tittensor,

Stoke-on-Trent tGrosvenor Lord Ar thur Hugh T.D. Broxton Lower

hall, Chester +Groves James Grimble esq. Bank hall, Chapel-en-le-

Fri th, Derbyshire Groves John Edward Grimble esq. Dean green, Lymm,

Warrington Grundy William esq. Derwent, Dukinfield Haddington Earl of K.T. Arderne hall, Tarporley Hague J. Walker esq. Inglewood, Disley, Stockport Hall James esq. Edale, Broad road. Sale, Manchester Hamlett Edwin esq. Field ho. Swanlow lane, Winsford Hannay Thomas Scott esq. Greenbank, Upton, Birkenhead Hardy Thomas Henry esq. Poole hall, Nantwich +Harmood-Banner John Sutherland esq. M.P. Aston hall,

near Warrington Harrison Fredc. Jas. esq. Maer hall, near Newcastle,Staffs Harrison Major WiUiam, West hill, Stalybridge Harthan Ezra esq. Black Acres, Sandbach Haworth Arthur Adiington esq. M.P. Normanby, Bonvill

road, Dun'nam Massey, Altrincham Haworth John Goodier esq. M.A. Hurs t dale, Devisdale,

Dunham Massey, Altrincham Hazlehurst Charles Whiteway esq. Broxwood court,Pem-

bridge, Hereford Heald William Norris esq. Westbank, Queen's rd. South-

port. Lanes Heap Wm. esq. Elm mount , Penkett rd. Liscard, B'head Hepherd James esq. The Knoll, Appleton, Warrington Hewitt David Ba.sil esq. B.A. The Mount, Davenham,

Northwich Hibbert Oliver esq. Windsor house, Stockport rd. Hyde Higson Capt. William, Oakmere hall, Northwich Hind Herbert Wheeler esq. Over Leasowe,Bidston,B'head Hoare Chas. Sumner esq.Kermincham lo.Holmes Chapel Hodgkinson Walter Bright esq. Stonehurst, Marple,

Stockport Hodgson Joseph Uttley esq. Higher Bebington hall,

near Birkenhead Holland Sir William Henry bart. M.P. 61 Queen's gate,

London S W Hope Charles Edward esq. The Bank ho. Burton, Neston Hope William esq Hornby Albert NeUson esq. Parkfield, Nantwich Horsfield Samuel esq. Springwood hall, Compstall,

Stockport Horsfield Thomas esq. Longlands, Hyde

DIRECTORY. ] CHESHIRE. 13 Houghton Henry Johnson esq. The Grennan, St.

George's mount . New Brighton, Birkenhead Houldsworth Sir William Henry bart, Coodham, KU-

marnock, N.B Howard Col. Cephas John, Buxton Howard John esq. M.A Hoyle Edward Lascelles esq. M.A. Pott hall. Pott Shrig­

ley, Macclesfield Hughes Charles James esq. Biversdale, Northwich Hutchings W'iUiam Nelson esq. HiUsboro, Frodsham Imison Edwin esq. Heatherlea, Buncorn Inman Ernest Stobart esq. C.B. Mere bank, Davenham,

Northwich Irwin Surtees esq. Park house. King street, Knutsford Isherwood John Hy. Bradshaw- esq.Marple hall,Stockprt Ivison Thomas esq. Bank house. High street, Winsford Jackson Thomas Hughes esq. The Manor house,

Claughton, Birkenhead Johnson Ernest esq. Ashton Hayes, Chester Johnson Col. John Goode, jun. V.D. Brinnington hall,

Stockport Jones Edward Peter esq. Greenbank, Chester Jones-Parry Eear-Admiral John Parry, ThelwaU hall,

near Warrington Joyce John esq. Sea Bank house. Sea Bank road north,

Egremont, Birkenhead Joynson Tert ius esq. Twembroke, Great Meols, Hoy­

lake, Birkenhead Kay Jn. Arth. Eickards esq. Bavenscroft hall,Middlewich Kay Samuel esq. Charlestowii, Davenport, Stockport Kay Thomas esq. Moorfield, Stockport Kearsley Major Eobert Wilson, i i 6 Eaton sq.London SW Kellock Win. Walter esq. Highfields, Audlem, Nantwich Kendall John esq. Moorlands, Broad rd. Sale, Manchester Kennedy Lt.-Col. John, Brookside, Arclid, Sandbach Kenyon' George Henry e9q.Brookfield,Ashton-under-Lyne Killick Thomas William esq. Southfield, Bowdon Kilvert Harry Vernon esq. The Lodge, Ashton lane,

Ashton-upon-Mersey, Sale, Manchester Kilvert Nicholas esq. Wood court, Bi klands. Sale,

Manchester Knowle^ Arthur esq. Alvaston hall, Nantwich Laird Egerton Knox esq. 86 Grosvenor road, Claughton,

Birkenhead Langley Evan esq. Bickleytown, Malpas Lawson Alexander esq. The Grange, Ashton lane, Ash­

ton-upon-Mersey, Sale, Manchester Lawton Jo-eph Wilfred Sylvanus esq. Loudwater, Wat­

ford, Herts Lea William esq. Shaftesbury house, Nantwieh Leak Hector esq. Dingle house, Winsford Lee Thomas Eussell esq. Oak lawn, Stanley road. Park-

field. New Ferry, Birkenhead Leech Sir Bosdin Thos.Oak mnt. Timperley, Altrincham Lees Col. Charles Percy, Heme lodge, Oundle Lees William esq. Fairfield, Davenport, Stockport Legh Arthur Masterton Eobertson esq. Adiington hall,

Macclesfield Legh Lieut.-Col. Hubert CornwaU, High Legh haU,

Knutsford Leicester-Warren Cuthbert esq. The Roode, High Legh,

Knutsford tLeigh Capt. Egerton, Jodrell hall. Holmes Chapel Leigh Isaac Linney esq. Beaconsfield, Bramhall lane,

Davenport, Stockport Leigh Oswald Mosley esq. Bowmount manor, Ennis-

corthv, CO. Wexford Leigh-Clare Octavius Leigh esq. B.A. Boden haU,

Scholar Green fLewis Ar thur Hornby esq. Marbury hall, Northwich Lewis George esq. Bed Lion farm, Weston, Grewe Levcester Ernest Gerard., esq. B.A., LL.B. Mobberley

Old hall, Knutsford Lindsav Andrew esq. Newbold, Penkett road, Liscard Littledale John Bolton esq. Brookdale,Bunhury,Tarporley Litt ler John esq. 57 Greenway road. Euncorn Llovd Edward Honoratus esq. K.C. 9 Bridge street,

Westminster & 30 Collingham gardens, London S W Lloyd Sir Horatio B.A. 8 Stanley place, Chester Lloyd J.>hn Caleb esq. V.D. Neston, Chester LLoyd Col. Wifford Neville M.V.O., F.E.G.S. Eccleston

hill, Chester , ^ . , ^ Lockhead Harry esq. The Mount, Swanlow la. Winsford Lonw WUliam esq. ThelwaU Heys. Warrington Longridge Bbt. Bewick esq.Yew Tree ho.Tabley,Knutsfrd Low" Wm. Scowcroft esq.Cheethams close.The Pk.Buxtn Lowther Col. Wm. Gorges B.A. Shrigley hi. Macclesfld Lnxmoore Charles Frederick Goryndon esq. Ashbrook

Towers, Church MinshuU, Middlewich tLyon Thomas Henrv esq. Appleton hall, Warrington McAfee William esq. M.D. Gooleen, West Kirby,

Birkenhead

McCracken William esq. Englesea house, Crewe McDonald Bouverie Francis Primroste esq. Ivor lodge.

New Brighton, Birkenhead McDougall Finlay esq. High street, Buncorn jMacfie John Wifliam esq. Rowton haU, Chester McGilchrist Chas. R. B. esq. 28 Penkett road, Liscard Maclver Charles esq. B.A. Beechfield, Heswall, B'head McNeill William esq. 8 Herdman street, Grewe Maddock James esq. The Cedars, Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent Mahler Henry esq. Sudworth, New Brighton, Birkenhd ^ainwaring SirHarrj- Stapleton bart.Peover hall,Knutsfd Marriott Thomas esq. Brookfield ho. Maesbury,0swe9try MarshaU Col. Sir Thomas Horatio C.B., V.D. Bryn-y-

Coed, Bangor Marson Charles esq. Junior United Service club, Lon-; don S W Maskery Samuel esq. The Brooklands, Congleton Massey Henry Boston esq. Stanley house, Ehyl Massie Edward Eichard esq. Minera hall, Wrexham Mellor John Edward esq. Tan-y-Bryn, Abergele,N. Wales Mellor WiUiam Moseley esq. 16 Devonshire place,

Claughton, Birkenhead Merriman Frank esq. Hollingford house, Knutsford Mewburn William esq. HawkweU Place, Pembury, Tun-

bridge Wells, Kent Millington Joseph esq. Sutton hall.Kinderton,Middlewich Mills Tom Hampden esq. White Bank house, Brinning­

ton, Stockport Moir John esq. Brereton haU, Sandbach Monks Frederick esq. 24 Lancaster rd. Birkdale, Lanes Monks Fdk. Wm. esq. Stonecroft, Appleton, Warrington Moorhouse Samuel Hy. esq. The Woodlands, Stockport Moreton Thomas Byram esq. Brown heath, Hartford, ' Northwich Morley John esq. Moor Lea, Derbys-hire road. Sale Morris John Alfred esq. Oak house, Altrincham Mortimer Harry Percival esq. Crofton lodge, Kingsley,

Frodsham Morton William esq. Silver hill, Hyde Muss Edward Howard esq. Montagu mansions, Portman

square, London W Moss His Honor Judge Samuel MA. , B.C.L. 50 Hough

green, Chester MothersiU Col. Walter V.D. Whaley haU, Whaley

Bridge, near Stockport Munro Seymour Hugh esq. M.D. Kiltearn ho. Nantwich Murray John esq. Warrendale, Frodsham Napier Thomas William Adam M D. 82 Church street,

Egremont, Birkenhead Neild Hy. esq. Green bank. Higher Whitley,Warrington NeUl Joseph Skidmore esq. The Cliff, Acton, Northwich Nelstrop Geo. esq. The Grange, Edgeiey rd. Stockport Nesbitt Maj. David A. S., V.D. Beech Bank avenue.

Manor road, Liscard Nevill Charles Henry esq. Bramall hall, Bramhall.Stckpt Newcome Harold Broughton esq. Spoonley, Market

Drayton fNewton Lord, Lyme park, Disley. Stockport ; & 6 Bel-

grave square, London S W Newton George esq. Tower house, Shipley, Yorks Nicholson Joshua Oldfield esq. Ashfield,Upton,Macclesfld Norman Alfred Eobert esq. Heath house, Runcorn Norman Fredk. John esq. Lvndhurst, Higher Euncorn NuttaU Harry esq. M.P., F.E.G S. Eaynor croft, Bowdn Ockleston John esq. Oakdale, Overton, Frodsham Oldershaw John esq. EoUeston house. New Brighton Oldham John esq. Albert house, Albert road, Hyde Pain Goard Squarey esq. Townfield lane. Lower Bebing­

ton, Birkenhead Parker The Hon. CecU Thomas, The Paddocks, Eccleston,

near Chester Parkyn William Joseph esq. Bose hill, Northenden Parr Cecil Fras. esq. B.A.Kimpton grange,Welwyn,Herts Parr Joseph Charlton esq. Grappenhall Heyes.Warrington [Parr Boger Charlton esq. M.A. Springfield, GrappenhaU,

Warrington Payne Arthur Lavington esq. Manor house, Mobber­

ley, Knutsford Pedley Geo. Arth. esq. Winterley ho. Haslington, Crewe Peel "Walter esq. MountviUe, The Dell. Bock Ferry Peers George Hunter esq. Millthwaite, St. HUary Brow,

Wallasey, Birkenhead Perrin Thomas esq. Fern bank. Godley, Hyde PhiUips-Brocklehurst Eobert Walter Douglas esq. B.A.

Hare hUl, Macclesfield Pickup James esq. HUl crest. Chapel Hill, Dukinfield Pierpoint Eobert esq. M.A. St. Austin's, Warrington Plant Frank George esq. Oaklands, Eomiley, Stockport Piatt Major James Edward, Ingmanthorpe hall,

Wetherbv, Yorks Piatt John esq. Hyning, Carnforth, Lanes Piatt Walt. Ward e5q.Warrendene,Mount rd.NewBrightn

14 CHESHIRE. [KELLY'S

Platt-Higgins Frederick esq, Woodham Place. HorseU, Surrey

Poole Bryan Davies esq. Marbury haU, Whitchurch Posnett Eobert Harold esq. The Mount, Euncorn Pra t t Henry esq. Peak house, Astley street, Dukinfield Preston Eobert Wheeler esq, Clare lodge, Clare Mount

road, WaUasey, Birkenhead Pri tchard James esq. The Elms, Buncorn Eankine Adam Geo. esq. Eeacioit, iioyiake, Birkenhead Eeiss Alexander EmU Jacques esq. Whatcroft haU,

near Northwich Eeiss James Edward esq. 36 Cadogan square,LondonSW Benshaw Wm. Agar esq. Old Market pi. Altrincham Eeynolds Charles esq. Netherton, Golwyn Bay Eeynolds Henry esq. Chapel walks, Llandudno Ehodes Geo.Wood esq.Mottram-in-Longdendale,Mnchstr Eichardson Ed. Taswell esq. B.A.Oapennurst hall,Chestr Riddick Et . Faulkner esq. Home acre, Ashley,Altrinchm Bidyard Joseph esq. High bank, Stalybridge Eigby Frank esq. Groundslow, Tittensor, Staffs Eigby Frederick esq. Union club, Trafalgar sq. London Eigby John esq. GreviUe lodge, Winsford fRoberts Benjamin Chaffers esq. Oakfield, Upton,Chesti Eoberts Henry esq. Kingsley, Appleton, Warrington Eoberts John Henry esq. Market street , Hollingworth,

Manchester Eobinson Francis Eatcliffe esq. The Meadow, Dean Bow,

WUmslow, Manchester Roden Earl of, TuUymore park,Bryansford,County Down Rodger George esq. Bridgelands, Selkirk, N.B Eooke George esq. Moorside, Sibson rd. Sale, Manchester Eoyds John Fletcher Twemlow esq. The Hill, Sandbach Royle John esq. Northwood, Wimslow, Cheshire Bylands Wm. Peter esq. Dingle bank, Lymm,WaTrngtn Sanday Samuel esq. Puddington hall, Neston Sandbach Samuel Henry esq. M.A. Cherry hill, Malpas tSchroder Baron William Henry von, Eookery hall,

Worleston, Nantwich Schroder William Henry von esq. The Cottage, Worles­

ton, Nantwich Shakerley-Ackers George Herbert esq. New Moreton

hall, Congleton Shakerley Sir Walter Geoffrey bart. Somerford pk.Congltn Shaw William Otho Nicholson esq. F.E.G.S. , B.A.

Skreens park, Eoxwell, Chelmsford, Essex Shepley Eobert Shepley esq Sidebotham Edward John esq. M.A. Erlesdene, Green

walk, Bowdon, Altrincham Sidebotham Joseph Watson esq. Merlewood, Bowdon,

Altrincham Sidebottom Col. Albert V.D. Heyrod cottage, Heyrod,

Stalybridge Sidebottom Col. William V.D.Harewood lodge,Mottram-

in-Longdendale, Manchester Simpson Alfred esq. Dunham Woods, Charcoal road,

Dunham Massey, Altrincham Skidmore James Stephen esq. The Crosslands, Willas­

ton, Nantwich Smith Frederick Henry esq. Queen's lodge, Golwyn Bay Smi th John Fergus esq. Torwoodlee, Gt. Meols,Hoylake Smith Joseph Wm. esq. Ivy ho. Weaverham, Northwich fSmyth Hugh Lyle esq.Barrowmore hall,Barrow,Chester Solly Arthur John esq. West Heath, Congleton Sparrow Walter Wedgwood esq. Bet ton haU, Market

Drayton, Salop Speakman PhUip Ernest esq. Sherecroft, Botley, Hants Spurrier Henry esq. The HaU, Marston-on-Dove, Derby Stafford Daniel esq. Perrin street, Hyde Stancliffe Lt.-Col. WUliam Waltham V.D. Springfield,

Byron's lane, Macclesfield Starkey Ar thur esq. Wrenbury hall, Nantwich Stead John Charles esq. Stoneycroft, Penkett road, Lis­

card, Birkenhead Steel Bd. esq. Zigzag hall, Penkett rd . Liscard,Birkenhd Stockton William esq. Elmwood, Merseyton road, EUes­

mere Port , Chester Stubbs Bobert Unwin esq. Bylands, Winsford Swetenham Clement WiUiam esq. Somerford Booths haU,

Congleton Sykes Alan Jn . esq. M.A. South view, Cheadle,Manchstr Sykes Prank esq. Brookfield, Cheadle, Manchester Talbot Arthur Hervey esq. Aston lodge, Preston Brook Tarbolton Alfred esq. Athelney, South Downs road,

Bowdon, Altrincham Tatton Thomas Egerton esq. Wythenshawe hall, Northen­

den, Manchester Tayleur John esq. Buntingsdale hall. Market Drayton

Taylor E. Eussell esq. Kingscourt, Penkett rd. Liscard Taylor George Crosland esq, Bavenscar, Helsby, near . Warrington Taylor James esq. Heatihercliffe, Helsby, near Warrington jay lor Samuel esq. Bydal mount, Buncorn Taylor Thomas esq. Kent house, Northenden road. Sale, ; Manchester Thompson Alfred Jahez esq. Merlewood, Guddington, • Northwich thompson William Ernest esq. Orchard bank.Altrinchvn ' thorne Wm. Calthrop esq.Holmefield, Gt.Sutton.Chestr T^hornycroft Charles Edward esq. M.A. Courtlands, ! Lymstone, Exeter •^horp Lt.-Col. John Walter Hook V.D. Pear Tree house, I Macclesfield Threlfall Charles esq. 24 Cadogan gardens, London SW Timmins Thomas Doming esq. Netherton, Frodsham, . Warrington Timmins Walter esq. Trinity house, Buncorn to le r Thomas Clayton esq. B.A. Taxal lodge, Whaley

Bridge, Stockport ToUemache Lord, Peckforton castle, Tarporley •J-ToUemache Henry Jas. esq. B.A. Dorfold hall,Nantwich Tomlunson Charles Wm. esq. WiUington hall, Tarporley tTomkinson Et . Hon. James P . C , M.P. WiUington

hall, Tarporley Turner Lt.-Col. James Aspinall, Porthamel hall, Llan-' fair, Anglesea Twigge Edward esq. ThingwaU hall, Birkenhead Underwood WiUiam esq. Albert house, Dukinfield Vacher Francis esq. 7 Shrewsbury rd. Oxton, Birkenhead fVerdin Sir Joseph bar t . Garnstone castle. Weobley,

Herefordshire Verdin Eichard Norman Harrison esq. Stoke manor,

Nantwich tVerdin WiUiam Henry esq. Darnhall hall , Winsford Vernon Thomas Murhall Lossford esq. Tushingham

house, Whitchurch, Salop Wainwright Thomas Foster esq. 2 Wardle road. Sale Waithman William Sharp esq. Gawsworth Old hall,

Macclesfield W^alker Alfred Osten esq. Ulcombe Place, near Maid­

stone, Kent Walker Col. Frank, Turf Moor, New Brighton, B'head Wall George esq. Heatherdene, Grange road. West Kirby Walley Eichard Pedley esq. Cotton Abbots, Chester Watkin Alfred esq. Dane Bank, Lymm, Warrington Welsford James Hughes esq. Hoole house, Chester Westminster Duke of G.C.V.O. (lord l ieut . ) , Eaton haU,

Chester ; & 33 Upper Grosvenor street, London W Weston John esq. The Heysoms, Chester rd. Northwich Whiston William esq. Clough house, Langley, MacclesHd Widdrington Shallcroas Fitzherbert esq. Newton hall,

Felton, Northumb Wigg George Lloyd esq. Bockshaw, Merstham, Surrey Wilbraham Hugh Edward esq. Delamere ho. Northwich Wild Frederick esq. Vernon house, Albert road, Hyde Wilde John esq. Bredbury house, Bredbury, Stockport Wildgoose William Thomas esq. 65 Heath side, Knutsfrd Williams Wellington Archbold esq. Sharden, Mayfield,

Sussex Williams William Maysmor esq Wilson Charles esq. CoUa, Delamere street, Crewe Wilson Hubert Malcolm esq. Barmere,Whitchurch,Salop WoUey-Dod Francis esq. Edge hall, Malpas Wolryche-Whitmore Francis Alexander esq. B.A. Larden

hall, Wenlock, Salop Wood George Stanley esq. 85 Gatley rd. Gatley,CheadIe Wood William Edward esq. Holly bank. Cemetery road,

Dukinfield Woodhouse Col. Samuel Henry, Heatherton pk. Taunton Woodmass Montagu esq Worthington Henry Hugo esq. Wycombe court. High

Wycombe Wyndham Bight Hon. George P.C. (Eng. & Irel.) . M.P.

Saighton grange, Chester; & 35 Park lane, London W Tates Hercules CampbeU esq Yates Joseph Maghull esq. K . C , B.A. Buglawton hall,

Congleton Young Chas. Ernest esq. Sheppenhall. Newhall.Nantwch Young Thomas PUkington esq. V.D. Stand haU, White-

field, Lanes The Mayors of Congleton, Crewe, Hyde, Macclesfield &

Stalybridge & the Chairmen of aU "Urban & Bural Dis­trict Councils, for the time being, are ex-officio magis­trates Clerk of the Peace,Eeginald Potts,Northgate ho.Chestr

DEPUTY LIEUTENANT NOT A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

Eoyden Sir Thomas Bland, Frankby hall, Birkenhead

DlKECTORY. CHESHIRE. 15

C O U N T Y C O N S T A B U L A R Y .

HEAD QUARTERS, CHESTER.

The force consists of a chief constable, deputy chief constable, 13 superintendents, 20 inspectors, -jj sergeants and 404 constables.

Chief Constable, Lieutenant-Colonel J. H, Hamersley, County Police Office, Chester. Deputy Chief Constable, W. Leah, County PoUce Office, Chester.

Detective Inspector, WiUiam T. Pierce, Chester. Inspectors, WUliam James Naylor & John Richard Dodd, Chester.

BROXTON DIVISION. Superintendent, Edward Charles Hicks, Broxton (T«). Stations.—^Aldford, Broxton, Ghristleton, Eccleston,

Farndon, Great Boughton, Handley, Hatton Heath, Hoole, Malpas, Mickle Trafford, No Man's Heath, Pul­ford. Tattenhall, Tilston, Threapwood, Upton

ALTRINCHAM DIVISION. Superintendent, John OkeU, County Constabulary Office,

Altrincham (M). Inspector, Thomas H. Gamer, County Constabulary

Office, Sale (M). Inspectors, Alfred Owen, E. T. Eichardson & Thomas

Sharp, County Constabulary Office, Altrincham. Stations.—Ashley, Ashton-upon-Mersey, Baguley, Bow­

don, Broadheath, Broomedge, Dunham Massey, Hale, Hale Barnes, Heatley, High Legh, Knutsford (W), Lymm (W), Mobberley, Ollerton. Partington, Eos-theme, Sale, Tabley, Timperley, Toft

EDDISBUBY DIVISION. Superintendent, John Beeley, Oakmere (M), Northwich. S ta t ions . -Acton , Alpraham, Barrow, Bunbury, Burton,

Dunham HiU, Gotebrook, Five Crosses, Frodsham m), Helsby, KelsaU, Kingsley, Little Budworth, Norley, Sandiway, Tarporley, Tarvin, Tiverton, Weaverham

NANTWICH DIVISION. Superintendent, George E. Farnworth, County Con­

stabulary Office, Nantwich (M). , Stations.—Aston, Audlem, Barbridge, FaddUey, Hun

sterson, Marbury, Stapeley, Willaston, Worleston, Wybunbury

OBEWE DIVISION. Superintendent, David Pearson, County Constabulary

Office, Crewe (T). Inspectors, John Swords & Albert Sudlow, County

Constabulary Office, Crewe. Stations:—Barthomley, Church Coppenhall, Haslington,

Shavington, Sydney, Weston, Wistaston,Woolstanwood MIDDLEWICH DIVISION.

Superintendent, Henry Thompson, County Constabulary Office, Middlewich (W).

Stations:—Alsager, Astbury, Booth Lane, Brereton, Buglawton, Byley, Goostrey, Holmes Chapel, Mow Cop, Bode Heath, Sandbach (M), Scholar Green, SmaUwood, Somerford, Wheelock, Wimboldsley

NORTHWICH DIVISION. Superintendent, Samuel Q-. Cooper, County Con-

stajbulary Office, Northwich (Tu). Inspector, John Sutton, County Constabulary Office,

Over (M). Stations:—^Barnton, Davenham, Great Budworth, Hart­

ford, Lache Dennis, Leftwich, Lostock Gralam, Mar­ston, Moulton, Over, Wharton, Wincham, Winnington

NOETH WIEEAL DIVISION. Superintendent, John McHale, County Constabulary

Office, Liscard (W). Inspectors, John Lees, County Constabulary Office, New

Brighton; Thomas Wilson & Thomas Ennion, Lis­card; Evan Christian, Hoylake & Thomas J. Morris, Seacombe

Stations:—Bidston, Greasby, Hoylake-cum-West Kirby, Liscard, Moreton, New Brighton, Poulton-cum-Sea­combe, Woodchurch, Upton, Wallasey

SOUTH WIEBAL DIVISION,

Superintendent, Andrew Sutherland, County Con­stabulary Office, Birkenhead (M & Th) .

Inspector, George W. Johnson,. County Constabulary Office, New Ferry.

Stations,—Backford, Higher Bebington, Bromborough, Bromborough Pool, Eastham, Heswall, EUesmere

. Port, Great Saughall, Little Sutton, Neston-cum-Parkgate (F), New Ferry, Pensby, Port Sunlight, Storeton, Thornton Hough, Willaston, Whitby

DUKINFIELD DIVISION.

Superintendent, Luke J. Croghan, County Constabulary Office, Dukinfield (M. & T h ) .

Inspector, WUliam Brewster, Dukinfield. Stations:—Broadbottom, Dukinfield, Hollingworth,

Matley, Mottram-in-Longdendale, Tintwistle

MACCLESFIELD DIVISION. Superintendent, William Hoole, County Constabulary

Office, Macclesfield (Tu).

Inspector, Charles Dean, Wilmslow (Th). Stations:—AdUngton, Alderley Edge, BoUington, Bosley,

Chelford, lEUiton, Gawsworth, Great Warford, Hen­bury, Hurdsfield, Kettleshulme, Poynton, Prestbury, Stjral, Sutton, T^her ington

STOCKPOET DIVISION.

Superintendent, Arthur J. Dutton, County Constabulary Office, Hazel Grove, near Stockport (Th).

Inspector, James Dawson, Bredbury. Stations:—Bramhall, Bredbury, Cheadle, Gheadle

Hulme, Compstall, Disley, Gatley, Hawk Green, Hazel Grove, Handforth, High Lane, Heald Green, Marple, Northenden, Offerton, BomUey,Whaley Bridge

BUNCOEN DIVISION.

Supt, Geo. Ennion, County Constab. Off. Buncorn (M) gtabnlary, Northwich (Tu).

Inspector, Albert Foster, County Con. Office, Buncorn. Stations.—Grappenhall, Halton, Moore, Preston Brook,

Stockton Heath, Stretton. Sutton Weaver, Walton, Weston, Weston Point, VThitley

16 CHESHIRE. [KELLY'a

THE G E O L O G Y OF C H E S H I R E (Revised to 1906.)

NATURAL HISTORY & SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES.—Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature & A r t ; Grosvenor Museum, Chester: Annual Repm-t, S^e. The Chester & North Wales Archaeological & Historic Society; Grosvenor Museum, Chester: Transactions. Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society; Chetham College, Manchester, Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire ; Eoyal Institu­tion, Colquitt street, Liverpool: Transactions.

MUSEUMS. — Altrincham: Museum & Free Library. Chester: The Grosvenor Museum. Northwich : The Brunner Public Museum. Warrington: The Municipal Museum. Stockport: Vernon Park Museum. Maccles­field : Museum, 'West Park.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE (GOVERNMENT) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

I.—Coloured Geological Maps, on the scale of one inch to one mile.

Old Series:— Quarter-sheets 73 N.E. , Nantwich, Crewe, Alsager,

Audlem. 73 N.W., Holt, Malpas, Combermere. 79 N.E.* (Wirral) , Birkenhead, Wallasey, West Kirby,

Eastham, Neston. 79 S.E.* (tf'irral), Burton, Shotwick, Dodleston, Pulford. 80 N E . * , Altrincham, Knutsford, Budworth. 80 N.W.*, Frodsham, Runcorn, Ince. 80 S.W.*, Chester, Tarporley, Delamere. 80 S.E.*, Middlewich, Northwich, Sandbach, Chelford. 8i ar.W.*, Stockport, Cheadle, Marple, Presbury, WUms­

low, BoUington. 81 S.W., Macclesfield, Congleton, Forest Chapel. 88 S.W.*, Mottram, Dukinfield, Stalybridge. 88 S.E., Woodhead. Hap {New Series'), 123,* Crewe, Betley, Wistaston. These maps are further illustrated by the Horizontal

Sections, Nos. 18, 43, 44, 60, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, and by the TeHical Section, Sheet 82 (the Cheshire Salt and Brine Workings).

Of the maps marked * two editions are published. The first, or " Solid," edition shows the regularly stratified rocks only, all the " Drift" deposits being ignored. The second, or "Dr i f t , " edition shows the stratified rocks where they form the actual surface of the country; but where the " Drift ' ' occurs it is shown instead of the stratified rocks. For most purposes the " D r i f t " edition is to be preferred; but the geologist will find it very useful to possess both series.

Index Map, scale 4 miles to one inch.—The whole of Cheshire (with the exception of a very small area in the north-east corner) is contained in Sheet 8 (price 2s. 6d.) of this cheap and very useful map.

II.—Books or *^Memoirs" (descriptive of the geological maps).—The Lias of England and Wales, by H. B. Wood­ward, 7s. 6d. ; Triassic and Permian Rocks of Midland Counties of England, by E. Hull, 55. ; Geology of the Country around Altrincham, by E. Hull {out of print); Geology of the Neighbourhood of Chester, by A. Strahan, 2s. ; Geology of the Neighbourhood of Stockport, &c., by E. Hull and A. H. Green, 4s ; Geology of the Country around Stoke-upon-Trent, by 'f. Gibson and C. B. Wedd, IS. 6d . ; The Geology of the North Staffordshire Coalfields, by W. Gibson, Sfc, 6 s , ; Superficial Geology of the Country adjoining the Coasts of S.W. Lancashire, by C. E. Be Ranee, 10s. 6d.

,The local agents for the sale of all the publications of the Geological Survey are Phillipson and Golder, Chester.

INTRODUCTION TO GEOLOGY.—For students and for general readers who may require some explanation of the terms used in Geology, with an account of the relations which the strata of Cheshire bear to those of the surround­ing counties and of the rest of Britain, we may mention Harrison's lextbook of Geology, fifth edition, 1903; published by Blackie & Son, price 3s. 6d.

L I S T OF IMPORTANT BOOKS AND PAPERS UPON LOCAL

GEOLOGY.

See List by ^^'. ^^'hitaker in the Proceedings of the Liverpool Gcolof/ical Socie'i/, of 190 books, papers &c. published up to 1873. Also later list by the same author in the Survey Memoir on the Geology of Chester, bj ' A. Strahan, 1882. 1835. Egerton, Sir P. G.—Gravel Bed containing recent

Marine Shells at " The WiUington," and at Narley Bank. Froc. Geol. Soc, vol. ii., pp. 189, 415.

1848. Ormerod, G. W.—The Salt Field of Cheshire, Q Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. iv., p. 262.

1864, HuU, E, & A. H, Green.—The Millstone Grit of Cheshire, &c. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xx., p. 242,

1865. Brodie, Rev, P, B,—Remarks on the Lias Outlier ia South Cheshire. Proc Warwick Field Club, p. 6.

1869, Hull, Prof, E,—On a Ridge of Lower Carboniferous Rocks, probably occurring beneath the Trias of Cheshire. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxv., p. 171.

1870, Maw, G,—Rhaetic Beds in Cheshire. Geol. Mag., p. 203,

1871, Report of the Coal Commission [Parliamentary Blue Book], Fol., London.

1872, Mackintosh, D.—Sea-Coast Section of Boulder Clay. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxviii., p. 388.

1873, Mackintosh, D.—On Remarkable Boulders. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxix., p. 351,

1873, Ward, T.—The Cheshire Salt District, Proc Lit. ^ Phil. Soc, Liverpool, No. xxvii., p. 39.

1874, Reade, T. M,—Shells of the Cheshire Low Level Drift. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxx., p. 27.

1874. Shone, W,—Foraminifera in the Boulder Clays. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol, xxx., p. 181.

1877, Mackintosh, D.—New Sections of Boulder Clay. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxiii., p. 730.

1878, Sainter, J. D.—Geological Rambles round Maccles­field. 8vo, Macclesfield.

1878. Shone, W.—Glacial Deposits of West Cheshire. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxiv., p. 383.

1879. Dawkins, W. B.—Mammoth Pre-glacial in Cheshire. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxv., p, 140.

1881. Strahan, A.—Lower Keuper Sandstone of Cheshire. Geol. Mag., p. 396.

1883. Reade, T. M.—The Drift-beds of the North-West of England and North Wales. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxix., p. 83.

1885. Ricketts, C.—On some Erratics in the Boulder Clay of Cheshire, &c. Q. Joum. Geol. Soc, vol. xli., P- 591-

1887. Shipman, Jas.—Holiday Letters of a Geologist [Trias, &c. ] ; 8vo., Nottingham.

i888. Reade, T. M.—An Estimate of Post-Glacial Time. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xliv., p. 291.

1895. Davies, T. W. & T. M. Reade.—Strata of the Seacombe Branch Railway. Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc, vol. vii., p. 327.

1896. Anon.—The Red Rock Fault at Congleton. Colliery Guard., vol. Ixxi., p, 641.

1896, Anffn.—The Millstone Grit of North Stafford and Cheshire. Colliery Guard., vol. Ixxi., p. 112.

1896, Morton, G. H.—Erosion of the Sea-Coast of Wirral. Geol. Mag., p. 516.

1897. Morton, G. H.—Geology of Country around Liver­pool. 8vo, London.

Ward, T.—Rock-Salt Deposits of Northwich. Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc, vol. xxv., p. 274.

Haddock, W. S.—Lancashire and Cheshire Coal­fields. Colliery Guard., vol. Ixxv., p. 897.

Gibson, W, & W. Hind.—On the Agglomerates and Tuffs in the Carboniferous Limestone Series of Congleton Edge. Q. Journ. Geol, Soc, vol. Iv., P- 556-

1899. Lomas, J.—Flint Implements in Glacial Deposits of Cheshire and N. Wales. Proc Liverpool Geol. Soc, vol. vui., p . 334.

Ward, T.—Subsidences at Northwich. Trans. List. Mining Eng., vol. xix., p. 241. [See also Geol. Mag. for 1887, p. 517.]

Beasley, H. C,—Keuper Marls at Oxton. Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc, vol. ix., p. 68.

Strahan, A.—Passage of a Seam of Coal into Dolom­ite [WirralJ. Q. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. Ivii.,. p. 297.

Edwards, W,—The Drift in the Neighbourhood of Crewe. Proc Liverpool Geol. Soc, vol, ix., p. 197.

1903. Pickstone, W.—Recent Geological Changes in the Peninsula of Wirral. Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc, vol. xxviii., p, 115,

1903-5. Lomas, J. & H. C. Beasley.—Report on the Trias (Footprints, &c.). British Association Reports for 1903, p. 219 ; for 1904, p. 275 ; and for 1905, p. 161,

Lomas, J.—Coasts of Lancashire and Cheshire. Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc, vol. ix., p. 332.

Strahan, A,—The Cheshire Basin.—Report of Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Part IV., fol., London.

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DIRECTORY. ] CHESHIRE. 17 GEOLOGICALLY speaking, the •structure of the county of •Chester is characterized by simplicity and uniformity Nme-tenths of its area is composed of rocks belonging to one geological formation only—the Trias or New Red Sand­stone; the remainder consists of beds of Carboniferous age, which form the hiUy region of the east and north-east of the county ; with just a patoh of Rhaetics and Lias near Audlem in the extreme south.

The district cannot be said to have been neglected bv geological writers. In a " List of Works on the Geoloo-l &c. of Cheshire," compiled by Mr. W. Whitaker, and pub­lished in the proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society, for 1875-6, we find the titles of 190 articles written by 85 authors. Of these, however. Professor E. Hull claims no fewer than 28, Mr. G. H. Morton, of Liverpool, iq, and Mr. E. W. Binney, of Manchester, 18.

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Messrs. A. Strahan, C. E. De Ranee, A. H. Green, H. B. Woodward, W. Gibson, &c.;, and their pubUshed maps, sections and memoirs (for lists of all these see above), form a full and s.atisfactory guide to a complete knowledge of its structure.

TABLE OF THE STRATA OF CHESHIRE,

Mr. Binney's papers were chiefly published in the pro­ceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Man­chester, and those of Mr. Morton in the publications of the Liverpool Geological Society, and of the Literary and PhUosophical Society of Liverpool.

In later years many other writers have added to our knowledge of the rocks of Cheshire, including Messrs. A. Strahan, J. Ward, G. W. Ormerod, D. Mackintosh, J. Lomas, H. C. Beasley, J. Shipman, &c. (see list above).

The whole of the countv of Cheshire has been examined 1

Max. Thickness in Feet.

River-Gravels IS t -( Alluvium, &c 30 K i Peat-beds 40

Oi- f c » a. r; o Ji J Boulder-Clays 200 "S i j Sands and Gravels 150

{Great Break or Interval here.) Lower Lias Rhaetic

f I f Red Marls Water-Stones

a i. L ! Basement Beds I Conglomerate Bed

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100 so

3,000 200

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Z I Upper Mottled Sandstone 800 : -{Pebble Beds 600 ; I Lower Mottled Sandstone 500

'Permian" [Permo-Carboniferous.] 1,000

5 J Goal Measures 2,500 Millstone Grit 2,000

_ -• f " Yoredale " Series 2,200 '•^ I £•{ Carboniferous Limestone > 400

^ L > L with Volcanic Tuffs Ji [Exposed.] Cheshire forms an exception to the fact that in England

the oldest rocks occur as a rule in the north-west part of any district whose geological structure we wish to describe.

On the contrary the first-formed and consequently oldest rocks occur in the east and north-east of Cheshire, where the boundary line extends up to the Yorkshire Moors. The cause of this is to be found in the elevation of the Pennine Chain, so that rocks of Lower Gdrboniferous age have there been brought to the surface and exposed by sub­sequent denudation.

These Lower Carboniferous beds we also find, so to speak, in their correct or natural place on the west side of the river Dee, where a fine ridge of rocks of the age of the Carboniferous Limestone and Millstone Grit runs north and south for a distance of 21 miles, the town of Mold being the central point. Looking from these hills eastwards we have before us an extensive plain (the " Plain of Cheshire"), composed of " Red Rocks " of Triassic age, thickly overlaid with boulder clay, and composing, as has been said, nine-tenths of the surface of the county. This plain is over 40 miles in width and its eastern boundary is formed by a repe­tition of the identical strata—the Carboniferous Limestone, Millstone Grit and Lower Coal Measures, upon which we have taken our imaginary stand in Flintshire.

T H E CHESHIRE BASIN.—In the county of Cheshire we have the central part of a great " basin" or trough, composed of strata which extend northwards into Lancashire and southwards into Shropshire. The axis or central line of this basin runs nearly north and south. Within this area the strata lie one upon another with their edges bent upwards in all directions, just hke a nest of basins or pie-dishes placed one within another. The result is that in Cheshire, which is the central part of this great earth-basin, the strata rise and crop out both to the east and to the west. The lowest stratum occurring in the district—the Carboniferous Limestone—we find on the east at Astbury ; but on the west we have to pass outside the limits of the county before we can stand upon the same rock in the Clwydian Hills. But we feel sure that this stratum or bed of rock is continuous—underground—right from the one place to the other; and that if we were to make a deep boring somewhere in Mid-Cheshire—say at Middlewich or Nantwich—we should come upon this very Carboniferous Limestone, but at a depth of probably not less than 10,000 feet. In exactly the same way the succeeding strata—the Millstone Grit, the Coal Meisures, and the various members of the Trias, are found both on the east side of Cheshire and also on the west side; each rock-bed forming a strip of sur­face-ground—broad m proportion to the thickness of the rock-bed and to the angle of its dip—but all the strips

by the officers of the Geological Survey (Prof, E. HuU, and | having a general extension or " strike " from north to south.

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As so the cause of this basin-like disposition of the rocks, it is due to a great (though probably very slow and steady) earth-movement having taken place at the close of the Carboniferous Period, by which the Pennine Range was elevated, and the district farther to the west depressed. Afterwards this depression was tilled up by the deposition of the Triassic beds, and then the earth-movement—which in each case acted from the east towards the west—was renewed, though on a smaller scale, and the Triassic strata were folded also. Thus the result of this great east to west pressure of the earth-crust was the formation of the Cheshire Basin.

As the oldest rocks of Cheshire occur in the north-east of the county we must commence our geological description there.

CARBONIFEROUS FORMATION.—The Carboniferous strata of Cheshire fall into four well-marked sub-divisions. The lowest bed or member of this well-known series of rocks is ( i ) the Carboniferous Limestone or Mountain Limestone, which in Derbyshire occupies an extensive tract of country between Buxton and Matlock. In Cheshire it only peeps up at one point, viz. the Astbury lime works, east of Congleton. I t occupies hardl}^ any surface area here, and is said to have been discovered by a Derbyshire servant girl, about 200 years ago, who noticed that the rock in the brook at Ast­bury was the same as that she had seen burnt for lime in her native county ; it has been worked ever since, and is much sought after, as it yields a good hydraulic lime. The rock occurs just on the east side of a great dislocation, caUed the " Red Rock Fault ," which we shall describe further on. At the very top of the Mountain Limestone in the Astbury Quarry (which is one mile X.E. of Mow Cop Station) we find some ^ery interesting beds of volcanic agglomerate and tuffs or ashes, intercalated with the bands of limestone. These point to volcanic eruptions having taken place on the old sea-floor during the time of deposi­tion of the Carboniferous Limestone. Similar cases occur in Derbyshire.

(2) " The Yoredale Rocks."—These beds rest upon the Mountain Limestone just described and attain a total thick­ness in this region of perhaps 2,200 feet. They extend from Congleton Edge to St. James, south of Macclesfield, and thence eastward for three miles, and then run up the valley of the river Goyt to a point about half-way between Taxall and Pott Shrigley. They consist in the lower part of black shales alternating with thin black earthy limestones (per­haps the equivalent of the Upper Limestone Shales of other districts), then comes a considerable thickness of hard fine­grained sandstone, surmounted by alternations of dark shales and sandstones. Fossils are scarce, but such shells as Gonatites, Chonetes, Productus &c. have been found in Con­gleton Edge. The " Yoredale " beds were so named by Prof. J. Phillips from their occurrence in Yoredale (or \^'ensleydale) in Yorkshire. They rest there upon the top of the Carboniferous Limestone ; and so, when similar beds were found elsewhere in the same succession—as in North­east Cheshire—they were given the same name. But of late years Dr. W. Hind and other geologists have found that these Cheshire rocks (which occupy the same velaXiye position as the true Yoredale Rocks) do not contain the same fauna —the same group of fossils. But the fossil shells which they do contain are like those seen at Pendleside in Lanca­shire. Hence it is proposed to call these Cheshire beds the " Pendleside Series " in future, instead of the " Yoredale Rocks." The final settlement of the question may, perhaps, be deferred until the district has been re-mapped by the Geological Survey.

(3) The Millstone Grit.—The beds which bear this familiar name have been sub-divided by Professor A. H. Green as follows:—

ist .—Grit, or Rough Rock, with feather-edge coal. Shales, with a thin coal at the bottom near Buxton.

2nd.—Grit, or Haslingden Hags. Shales, with two or three thin coals.

3rd.—or Roaches Grit. Shales.

4th.—or KinJerscout Grit, generally in two beds. The total thickness of these beds is as much as 2,000 feet,

in the north-east of Cheshire, near Marple ; but they thin out southwards considerably. The sandstones are very massive, and of a coarse grain—often conglomeratic in fact.

The feather-edge coal is a very variable seam, about 3 feet in thickness : it is finely exposed in the railway cuttings and river cliff's, near New ]!Aills.

The Millstone Grit can be traced from near Macclesfield, running north-east by Rainow, to New Mills, and thence along the Goyt to Marple : it also forms the moorland region of the extreme north-east corner of Cheshire, between Longden Dale, Featherbed Moss and Hohne Moss, and is pierced by the Woodhead tunnel of the Manchester and Sheffield raUway. Fine sections too are to be seen iilong the course of the river Tame. Fossil remains of such plants

as Le2ndodendron, Sigillaria and Calamites are not uncom­mon, with the shells Aviculopecten and Goniatites in the roofs of the little coals.

(4) The Coal Measures.—The Cheshire Coal-field is a pro­longation of the extensive coal-field of South Lancashire, running due south from Oldham by Stalybridge and Hyde to Macclesfield. The Lower Coal Measures rest upon the Millstone Grit, and include some thin seams of coal, known as the Gannister Coal, the Bakestone Dale Coal &c. The Middle Goal Measures contain the chief workable seams, which crop out about two miles to the east of Stockport and Poynton. There are from six to ten seams, of good thick­ness and quality ; the lowest is the Redacre mine, which is identical with the famous Arley, or Royley mine of South Lancashire.

Fossils.—The ordinary coal-measure plants, already enu­merated for the Millstone Grit, occur in fair abundance.

Carbonicola (formerly known as A nthracosia), the common coal-measure mussel-like shell, also occurs, and the iron­stone nodules yield remains of fishes; everything shows that here, as elsewhere, the coal forests grew in mighty swamps near the sea, on an area which underwent frequent though slow and slight alternations of elevation and depres­sion.

In 1875 there were 37 coUieries at work in Cheshire, and they raised 658,945 tons of coal, besides 8,200 tons of fire­clay, 1,000 tons of oil shales, and 1,500 tons of iron ore. The amount of coal remaining to be extracted was estimated in 1871 by Mr. Dickenson a t 200 millions of tons; in 1879 there were 26 collieries at work, producing 720.250 tons of coal and 6,062 tons of fire-clay ; in 1904 the amount of coal raised in Cheshire was 392,751 tons. For later statistics see p . 2.

The JVeston Colliery.—We must not dismiss the coal ques­tion without mentioning that coal is worked at Neston, on the north side of the river Dee. The beds here are evidently a continuation of the seams which form the Flintshire coal­field. The measures dip to the north-east, and probably lie under all the peninsula of Wirral, and pass under Liverpool itself, but at a considerable, and as yet unknown depth. Coal has been proved also on the east side of the Dee, north of Chester; and at Sealands, close to the west side of Chester itself.

CONCEALED COAL-FIELDS UNDERNEATH CHESHIRE. — Seeing that the coal-measures crop out, or come to the sur­face both in the east of Cheshire (as near Stockport and Poj-nton), and also in the west (as at Neston, and also in FHntshire), is it not reasonable to expect that these expo.sed or surface coal-areas are connected underground? The probability of the connection is increased by the fact that the FUntshire, &c., beds dip or slant towards the east, while the Poynton, &c., beds dip to the west. Geologically, aU the evidence goes to show that these coal districts are connected; and that seams of coal do exist almost everywhere beneath Cheshire.

But the coal may be there, and yet lie at too great a depth to be worked a t a profit, or perhaps even to be worked at all. Practical men tell us that 4,000 feet is about the greatest depth at which even the best seams of coal can be successfuUy worked ; the chief reason being the increase of heat (at the rate of about one degree F. for every 60 feet we go down).

In East Cheshire the presence of the *' Red Rock Fault" adds to the difficulty of reaching the coal-seams.

This great crack or dislocation running north and south from Macclesfield marks a line along which, on its west side, the strata have dropped down so as to be a considerable distance lower than on its east side. To reach the coal at any point near or about the centre of Cheshire, we should have to sink downwards first through the Triassic strata (perhaps 5,000 feet), then the Permian (thickness doubtful), and then through the upper coal-measures (1,000 feet?), which contain few and practically valueless coal-seams). Thus although valuable coal-seams may be present, it is not probable that they wiU ever be worked beneath the district on which stand the towns of Northwich, Nantwich, Crewe, Knutsford, &c.

Further to the west the chances seem bet ter ; and it seems likely that coal lies within a workable distance beneath the peninsula of Wirra l ; and also along West Cheshire from Overton, by Holt to Chester.

COAL RESOURCES OF CHESHIRE.—The Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, issued in 1905, estimates the coal remaining to be womed in connection witb the present coal-fields of Cheshire at 170,800,570 tons ; which at the present rate of consumption will sutiice for 435 years.

Scenei-y of East Cheshire.—The tract of land formed by the old Carboniferous rocks, which we have just been de­scribing, constitutes a bold and hiUy coimtry, forming the west flank of the Pennine Chain. Several hills rise to a height of above 1,000 feet, as Cloud Hill, near Congleton (capped by 3rd Grit) , 1,190 feet; Tegg's Nose,near Maccles-

DIRECTORY.] CHESHIRE. 19 field (3rd Gri t ) , 1,300 feet; source of the Goyt, 1,600 feet; Eddisbury HiU, 1,000 feet; Northern Nancy, near Kerridge, 930 feet. The height of Marple Church is 624 feet; the Cage in Lyme Park, 882 feet; Park Moor, south side of Lyme Park, 1,350 feet, &c.

The strike or direction of extension of the strata is north and south, and in this direction we see lines of hiUs and escarpments to run with wonderful regularity, the " scarps " being formed of the hard sandstones, while the vaUeys between have been excavated by rivers out of the softer shales. The whole country rises a t once from the Plain of Cheshire on the west ; it is cut off from it, in fact, by a great line of dislocation, or break in the strata, known as the Red Rock Fault, which has been traced along the west side of Congleton Edge by Astbury lime works, the North Rode viaduct crossing the River Dane, Broad Oak Reservoir, Macclesfield, and thence nearly due north out of the county. On the east side of this great fault the beds have been elevated several hundreds if not thousands of feet, and from the top of the elevated mass all the red sandstones and marls which once stretched continuously eastwards have been worn off. The hard beds of the Carboniferous forma­tion, however, have been better able to withstand denuda­tion, and now stand up in bold relief. Another dislocation, known as the Anticlinal Fault, runs parallel to the Red Rock Fault , about 3 miles to the east of it.

T H E " P E R M I A N " FORMATION.—The Lower Red Sand­stone is found on the east of Stockport, forming a tract I5 miles in width, and narrowing southward untU it ends east of Poynton. Many sections are shown in the banks of the Mersey, near Stockport, where the rock is seen to be a bright red, sometimes striped and mottled sandstone, very soft and crumbly, and without pebbles. The beds dip to the westwards. A little outlying patoh of Permians also occurs at Torkington, near Hazel Grove ; the beds here are only to be seen in the brook-courses. Recent researches have made it doubtful as to whether these Lower Permian rocks are not in reality upper coal-measures. Further study of the beds is needed before the question can be considered settled for this particular district.

T H E TRIAS, OR N E W R E D SANDSTONE.—It is in Cheshire that the Triassic formation attains its chief British develop­ment, both in thickness and in the extent of surface occupied by it.

At first sight it seems almost hopeless to fix any definite lines marking sub-divisions, in the great mass of red sand­stone and marls, which attain a total thickness m this county of over 5,000 feet. But by long-continued and patient work in the field, Professor E. HuU has been able to construct the following table of the Triassic strata, showing the various beds from below upwards ; and to trace and map them at every point to which the formation extends. The maximum thickness of each bed in Cheshire is also given.

TABLE OF TRIASSIC ROCKS.

(Keuper Marls with Upper Keuper

Sandstone 3.000 feet Lower Keuper Sandstone (\^'ate^-

stones) .„ 200 feet Basement Bed 250 feet

Conglomerate Bed 10 feet Muschelkalk Wanting in England

( Upper Mottled Sandstone 600 feet Bunter < Pebble Beds 800 feet

( Lower Mottled Sandstone 500 feet I . The Bunter Sandstone.—Bnnter is a German word, and

means variegated, in allusion to the bright and varied tints of the stone. As these are the lowest Triassic beds, we find them well exposed in the west of the county, and they, as well as the overlying strata, have there a gentle dip or inclination to the eastwards. The upper and lower Bunter beds are soft reddish sandstones, whUst the pebble beds between contain vast numbers of well-rounded quartzite pebbles, and usually form the top of the first of the two series of escarpments, which can be traced in most Triassic districts ; the second escarpment—further to the east—being due to the hard beds at the base of the Keuper division. Very fine sections of the Pebble beds are exposed in the banks of the Dee, at Holt ; thence we can trace the Bunter beds by Chester; and the various sub-divisions are well shown at several points in the peninsula of Wirral, both on the coast, as at Burton Point (junction of Pebble beds with Lower Mottled Sandstone), West Grange Hill, West Kirby, Eastham (ditto), Hilbre Point, the " Red Noses " at New Brighton (Upper Mottled Sandstone), and in various quarries inland a t Shotwick, Birkenhead, &c. The Bunter is a splen­did water-bearing formation, and wells sunk in it near Birkenhead yield a total of more than seven millions of gallons daily, whilst Liverpool obtains an equal quantity from the same rock, on the northern side of the Mersey. The town and works of Crewe are supplied with water of

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singular purity from a deep well in the New Red Sandstone, sunk at Whitmore station, on the recommendation of Pro­fessor E. Hull, affording another proof of the importance of geological knowledge to our every-day life and interests. In East Cheshire the Bunter beds rise and crop out to form th^ country between Gheadle, Wilmslow and Macclesfield ; and again, further south, at Checkley Green, &c.; all along this fine their dip is to the west, at from two to four degrees.

I I . The Keuper Beds.—On the Continent we find thick beds of a shelly Umestone—the Muschelkalk resting upon

j the Bunter, but these are absent in England, and we infer that this region was probably elevated and formed dry land for a time, to sink again when the Keuper strata were being

__. deposited. Confirmation of this "S S theory is obtained from the fact that ^ " where the junction of the Bunter and

the Keuper beds is exposed, the former „ are often s.ien to present a worn,

uneven or eroded surface, telling of a long interval of time, during which they were exposed to denuding influences.

The lowest Keuper bed is a hard conglomerate, and above it come light red, yellow or white sandstones, the " Basement Beds "yielding building stone of good qualitj'. Then come the "Water-stones," so named by Mr. Ormerod, from an appearance on the surfaces like watered silk,although

^ the term is now generally understood g to apply to the copious flow of water |« which these beds yield when tapped fl by a boring. Next we get a great oi thickness—over 2,000 feet —of Keuper ._ Red Marls, with beds of rock salt near ^ the base, and an irregular band called 5 the Upper Keuper Sandstone, about - 6 200 feet from the top. % f Most of the plain of Cheshire east J J of the Peckforton Hills is composed of Z ~, these Keuper beds, but the monotony ',. = of the surface is relieved by one or two 1 = striking escarpments, which we will •" = first describe. Between Malpas, Tar-f f porley and Frodsham, there exist i--^ several faults, running north and p t south, which, together with the un-" ^ equal hardness of the strata, have = ;= produced escarpments of considerable

'ji. is abruptness and altitude. The Peck­forton Hills rise to a height of nearly 1,000 feet, as at Larkton HUl, Lee Cliff, Garden Cliff, Raw Head and Beeston (see iUustration). The west­ern slopes are formed of Bunter sandstone, but the summit consists of the hard conglomerate basement bed of the Keuper. On the north and on the south these hills are cut off by

w.r,-jL ^ cross-faults, and on the east their l/.'/'ll (2 boundary is a north and south fault

with a downthrow to the east which brings in the Keuper marls. Springs burst out aU along the line of this east fault, from Beeston Castle to Malpas, and a lode of copper ore has been worked in it at Gallantry Bank.

At Alderley Edge in the north-east of the county we get another elevation formed of Keuper sandstone and con­glomerate. The Edge runs east and west for about 2 miles from Chorley to Haresfield, and rises to a height of

^ Y Jl' "a 650 feet. Carbonate of Copper occurs ^ ^'«''• n here also, but the ore is not now worked; it is from the occurrence of copper ore in them that the Keuper beds derive their name, Keuper being de­rived from Kupfer, the German word for copper ; some, however, would derive the term Keuper from another German word meaning clay or marl. Professor G. A. Lebour, however, who is an authority on geological nomen­clature, has kindly informed us that " Keuper " is a local term (miners'patois in fact), appUed by the workmen, not only to the metal, copper (Kupfer), but also to the rock impregnated with coppery ore.

The Lower Keuper Sandstones are extensively quarried at Storeton Hill and New Brighton, near Birkenhead, and at Delamere, Manley, and in the Peckforton Hills. The beds are often traversed by sun-cracks, and foot-prints of a remarkable amphibian—the Cheirotherium—are not un-

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frequent on the surfaces of the slabs. These footprints bear a rough resemblance to a human hand ; they are from 5 to 7 inches in diameter. Rain-pittings, also, are not un­common upon ihe sandstones of the Keuper; and the cubical casts of salt crystals are frequent in the hard bands of the marls. Almost the only true fossil found in the Keuper beds are the valves (looking like little shells) of the phyllopod crustacean named E-itkeria minuta, which in­habited brackish water pools.

Keuper Marls with Rock Salt.—Beds of salt have long been known to exist in the Keuper Red Marls of Cheshire, beneath the towns of Northwich, Winsford, Middlewich, Sandbach, Lawton. Nantwich, &c. There are two beds of rock-salt; the first is found below Northwich at a depth of 120 feet, and is 75 feet thick; it was discovered in 1670 (luring a boring for coal. About a century later, an agent of the Duke of Bridgwater bored 30 feet below the upper salt bed and struck another—lower—bed of salt, which turned out to be from 90 to 120 feet thick: of this fine bed about 15 feet in thickness of the purest part is now mined at Northwich. A great deal of brine is also pumped up, and being evaporated about 25 per cent, of pure salt is obtained. This brine comes chiefly from rain-water which has percolated through the upper salt bed. The effects of the removal of thick masses of rock from beneath the surface have made themselves very seriously felt a t Northwich. The surface there is gradually sinking, so that houses have to be removed or rebuilt, and quite a lake has been formed at one point, along the course of a small brook that ran into the rivet Weaver ; further serious subsidences occurred in December, 1880.

To explain the original formation of the salt we must imagine the upper Triassic rocks (the Keuper Marls more especially) to have been deposited in great inland salt lakes. The excessive saltness of the water and the quantity of salts of iron, &c., conveyed into it by rivers, were inimical to animal life, of which accordingly we find scarcely a trace. Occasionally the waters were so concentrated as to deposit their excess of salt upon the lake bottom in beds more or less thick. Great quantities of carbonate of iron were brought down by the river waters, &c., and on exposure to the air this was rapidly converted into peroxide of iron, by the escape of the carbonic aciJ. Such was the amount of oxide of iron present that the minute particles of sand or mud, as they were deposited on the bottom, were each en­crusted with a pellicle of it, and the marls and sandstones consequently have a more or less deep red colour.

The amount of salt produced in 1875 in Cheshire was : — White Salt 1,255,500 tons Rock Salt 105,000 tons

Total 1,360,500 tons But in 1904 these figures had decreased t o : —

White (or Brine) Salt 1,187,442 tons Rock Salt 53,780 tons

For 1908 returns see p. 2. Some at least of the various small lakes or meres which

are dotted over the surface of Cheshire are owing to sub­sidences of the surface caused by the dissolving of beds of salt which once lay beneath. The Keuper Red Marl used formerly to be largely dug and spread over the land as a top-dressing, and the hollows of old marl-pits may still be seen in many fields. I t forms a rich and good soil where it occupies the surface, but it is usually overlaid by a greater or less thickness of the surface deposits or " d r i f t " shortly to be described.

T H E R H ^ T I C BEDS AND LOWER LIAS.—There is a well-known Liassic outlier between Whitchurch and Market Drayton, the northern portion of which is in Cheshire. A line drawn from Burley Dam to Audlem marks its northern edge. Here we see red and variegated rubbly marls form­ing the top of the Keuper. Then come the Rhaetic beds, composed of very hard grey marls and black shales, capped by the shales and limestones of the Lower Lias. A fault runs along the eastern edge of this outlier, which extends southwards past Frees to Edstaston.

ECONOMIC GEOLOGY.—The following figures give the mineral products of Cheshire for the year 1904. They are official, being extracted from the Government annual publi­cation, Jlines and Quarries ; but they only include returns from pits, &c., which exceed 20 feet in depth, so that in the case of clay and gravel they are somewhat less than the real amounts. For latest statistics see p. 2.

PLEISTOCENE FORMATION : T H E DRIFT.—Good work has been done by Messrs. G. E. De Ranee, W. Shone, D.

Mackintosh, T. M. Reade, J. Lomas, Prof. P. F. Kendall, Dr. C Ricketts and others in investigating the deposits of clay, sand and gravel which are spread so thickly and (as a whole) so continuously over the greater part of the plain of Cheshire and Lancashire, To the early workers a triple division appeared to have been made out, viz., an Upper and a Lower Boulder Clay, with sands and gravels between ; but later researches show that the various layers of boulder clay, sand and gravel are irregular and discontinuous. The Boulder Clays are full of fragments of foreign rocks, most of which have come from the Lake District, or the Sjuth of Scotland, often striated and polished, and these appear to have been brought by glaciers moving southwards over the bed of the Irish sea. Countless numbers of the erratics have been broken up and destroyed, but in the Peel Public Park, at Macclesfield, a fine 30-ton block of gn^anite from Ravenglass, in the Lake District, is wisely preserved. It was dug out of the Boulder clay of the neighbourhood. From all the divisions of these Drift deposits many shells and fragments of shells have been obtained by the geologists named above, and they are mostly of species which now inhabit the Northern or Arctic seas. Fine sections of these glacial deposits are exposed at Dawpool, and at various other cliff sections in Wirral, and they extend thence more or less all over the Keuper Red Marl of the Plain of Cheshire, usually completely covering and masking the strata below.

D E E P BORINGS IN CHESHIRE.—Attempts to discover the nature of the rocks at considerable depths beneath the surface have been made at several places in Cheshire. The object has usually been to discover workable beds of coal, though sometimes either beds of salt or a supply of water has been the aim. Ttie following figures give particulars of the strata passed through in a few of the principal bore­holes :—

( i ) Hazel Grove (between Stockport and Poynton): Glacial drift, 80 ft.; Bunter Sandstone, 30 ft. ; " Permian" Marls and Sandstones, gi3 ft. ; c^al-measures for 644 ft.; total depth, 1,667 ft. This place lies on the west or down­throw side of the Red Rock Fault.

(2) Sealands, near Chester (third boring) : Surface deposits, 79§ ft. ; Trias ( "New Red Sandstone"), 859jft.; upper coal-measures for 698 ft . ; total depth, 1,637 ft.

(3) Congleton : Keuper Red Marls, 900 ft. (4) Marston (near Knutsford): Surface deposits, 31^ ft,;

Keuper Red Marls, 1764 ft. ; Keuper Sandstone, 708J ft.; Bunter (upper mottled) Sandstone for 106 ft.; total depth, 2,610 ft.

PREHISTORIC MAN.—The remains of early man appear to be scarce in this county, but one or two impor tant" finds" have occurred. Of the Paleolithic or Older Stone Age no trace has been discovered in Cheshire. The following examples of stone tools all belong to the Neolithic or Newer Stone Age, which came to a close in Britain about 2000 B.C. A Neolithic celt, or stone axe, was found near Tranmere which had part of its wooden handle still remaining; the greater part of the wood had perished, but enough remained to show that the handle had passed in a slightly diagonal direction towards the upper end of the stone ; it is now in the Mayer Museum, at Liverpool. Again, the historian Stukeley states tha t in cleansing the moat at Tabley, near Knutsford, " t h e y found an old British axe, or some such thing, made of large flint, neatly ground into an edge, with a hole in the middle to fasten into a handle ; it would serve for a battle-axe." Another perforated axe, made of grit, and 7§ inches long, was found at Siddington, near Maccles­field. Mr. C. E. De Ranee records a quoit-shaped stone implement, 6 inches in diameter, from drift 20 feet below the surface, at Stalybridge Railway Station, and a smaller ring of stone was found in gravel near Macclesfield in i860.

A perforated axe, fashioned out of a piece of hard sand­stone, and 4§ inches in length, was found a t Northenden, in 1883; and a round stone hammer, zh inches thick, with depressions on each face occurred at Gatley; hammer-stones, or mauls, probably used in ore-mining, have been met with a t Alderley Edge ; another stone axe, having a hole worked in its broad end, and measuring 10 inches by 5 inches by 3 inches, is recorded from Weston Point. For a detailed account of these implements, which were used by the early inhabitants of this country at a time when metaU were unknown, we must refer our readers to Sir John Evans's fineJly-illustrated book. The Ancient Stone Implt-ments of Great Britain ; 8vo; London, second edition, 1897.

W, JERCME HARRISON, F.G.S.