BOSTOCK, in Davenham parish, and po- | BULKELEY, or BUCKLEY, in Malpas pula. included therein. 3 miles from Middlewich. BOUGHTON (Great), in Aldford parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile E. from Chester. BOWDON, 1 mile S. from Altringham. Popula. 7442. BRADLEY, in Malpas parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles from Malpas. BRADWELL, in Sandbach parish, and popula. included therein. BRAMHALL, in Stockport parish, and popula. included therein. BREDBURY, in Stockport parish, and popula. included therein. BRERETON with SMETHWICK, 2 miles N.W. from Sandbach. Popula. 624. BRIDGEMERE, in Wybunbury parish, and popula. included therein. 63 miles S.E. from Nantwich. BRIDGE-TRAFFORD, in Plemonstal rish, and popula. included therein. BRIMSTAGE, in Bromborrow parish, and popula. included therein. pa. parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Malpas. BUNBURY, 2 miles S.E. from Tarporley. Popula. 4,021. Here there was a College, founded in the year 1386, by Sir Hugh Calvely, Knt.; value 421. 2s. 8d., now worth 8421. 13s. 4d. yearly; sold by Queen Elizabeth to Thomas Aldersey, London, merchant tailor. BURLAND, in Acton parish, and popula. included therein. BURTON, 7 miles N.W. from Chester. Popula. 481. BURTON, in Tarvin parish, and popula. included therein. BURWARDESLEY, in Bunbury parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles S.W. from Tarporley. BUTLEY, in Prestbury parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles N.E. from Macclesfield. BYLEY with YATEHOUSE, in Middlewich parish, and pópula. included therein. BROMHALL, in Wrenbury parish, and CAPESTHORNE, in Prestbury parish, popula. included therein. BROXTON, in Malpas parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles N. from Malpas. BRUEN-STAPLEFORD, in Tarvin parish, and popula. included therein. BRUERA.-See Churton Heath. BUDWORTH (Great), 3 miles N.E. from Northwich. Popula. 14,346. Fairs, Feb. 13, April 5, Oct. 2, for cows, horses, swine, hats, and pedlary. BUDWORTH (Little), 4 miles N.E. from Tarporley. Popula. 524. BUERTON, in Aldford parish, and popula. included therein. BUERTON, in Audlem parish, and popula. included therein." 11 miles from Newcastle-under-Lyne. BUGLAWTON, in Astbury parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles N.E. from Congleton: and popula. included therein. 3 miles from Macclesfield. CAPPENHURST, in Shotwich parish, and popula. included therein. CARDEN, in Tilston parish, and popula. included therein. CARRINGTON, in Bowdon parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles N. from Altringham. CASTLE-NORTHWICH, in Great Budworth parish, and popula. included therein. CHEADLE, BULKELEY, and MOSELEY, 2 miles S. from Stockport. Popula. 6,508. CHECKLEY with WRINEHALL, in Wy. bunbury parish, and popula. included therein. CHELFORD, in Prestbury parish, and popula. inchided therein. 9 miles from Macclesfield. CHESTER. This city is in the PROVINCE OF YORK, and in the DIOCESE OF CHESTER, and is in the NORTHWALES CIRCUIT. It is 180 miles N.W. from London, 20 miles from the main sea, about 20 miles from Denbigh, 40 miles from Shrewsbury, 46 from Stafford, 76 from Derby, and 75 from Lancaster. It stands on a rocky eminence on the banks of the river Dee, which is 100 yards broad at Chester bridge, and which, about 12 miles farther, towards Hawarden Castle, becomes an estuary of, at least, 3 miles broad. Some historians have made this a place of the greatest antiquity, giving it even some antediluvian patrons and names; later ones make it the possession of the Romans about the year 607, when the Saxon Ethelfith beat the then king of Powys, and annexed this country to his own. The Danes committed great ravages on it, but were ultimately driven out of it in about 895. It then remained some time in ruins, till about 907 or 908; it was restored by Ethelfreda, the daughter of Alfred the Great, who repaired the city walls, and, according to some, extended them so as to include the castle, which, before that, stood without the ancient limits. After the Conquest, William granted the county to Hugh Lupus, making him Earl of Chester, and from that time it has been an earldom, in the family of Lupus, until that became extinct, when it fell to the crown in Henry the Third's reign; and it has, since that, generally been annexed to the crown, the late king having been the last Earl. The town suffered considerable damage from the siege that it stood from the Parliament army in 1643. In the reign of William III. it was made one of the six cities of residence for an assay-master, who authorized the issuing of coin. The limits of the ancient city appear to have been precisely those of the present, from the strict resemblance of the form of the walls to a Roman camp. These walls are in circumference one mile and three quarters and one hundred yards. The city consists of four principal streets, running from the centre towards the points north, east, south, and west, and each terminating by a gate; as North-gate, Eastgate, Bridge-gate, and Water-gate. These gates were all (except the north gate, of which the citizens had the charge) held in serjeanty by different families, who were entitled to the tolls; but the corporation have, at different times, bought up all these. The streets were excavated from a bed of rock, and are sunk several feet beneath the surface, which has been the cause of a remarkable construction of the houses. Level with the streets are low shops, and above them galleries on each side, reaching from street to street, open in front, and balustraded. These are exceedingly curious to strangers, who, when in them, imagine themselves up one pair of stairs. The whole appears as if the first stories of the fronts of all the houses were laid open, and made to communicate with each other. The principal streets are intersected by smaller ones, dividing the inclosed spaces into smaller squares; and some of them are terminated by smaller gates, called posterns. The monastic establishments and public charities of Chester were, a BENEDICTINE ABBEY, or NUNNERY, founded in Saxon times, and much enlarged afterwards by Elfleda, Countess of Mercia. Its revenues were 1,0731. 17s. 74d. when Hen. VIII. seized it and granted it away, or, in presént money, 24,4771. 12s. 6d. A BENEDICTINE NUNNERY, founded in the reign of William I., by Randal, Earl of Chester; valued, at the suppression, 99l. 16s. 2d., now worth 1,9961. 13s. 4d., and granted, by Hen. VIII., to Urian Brereton and his son. St. JOHN'S COLLEGE, founded by King Ethelred, in the year 689: worth annually at the dissolution, 88/. 16s. 8d., worth now 1,776l. 13s. 4d., granted, by Queen Elizabeth, to John Fortescue. St. JOHN's Hospital, possessing anciently great privileges; and, at the dissolution, a chaplain and six poor brethren, when the yearly income was 281. 10s. 4d., now worth 570l. 68. 8d. A FRIARY, founded, southward of the city, by a Bishop of Chester; granted, by Hen. VIII., to one John Coke. A FRANCISCAN FRIARY, founded in the reign of Hen. III.; granted to the same. A CARME LITE FRIARY, founded in the year 1979, by a Thomas Stadham, Gent.; granted, by Hen. VIII., to the same John Coke. The first of these was a noble and extensive edifice, and a considerable part of it remains in ruins at this day. Chester now contains 2 parishes, 1 cathedral, and 9 parish churches, and a population of 19,949 persons. Being a county palatine, it did not send members to Parliament till the time of Hen. VIII. The right of election is in the freemen: the government of the town is in a corporation, consisting of a therein. mayor, recorder, 2 sheriffs, 24 alder- CHURTON-HEATH, or BRUERA, in men, and 40 common councilmen. Its Aldford parish, and popula. included commerce is principally with Ireland; therein. 1 mile from Chester. there being a considerable quantity of CLAUGHTON, with GRANGE, in BidIrish linen imported annually, and it ston parish, and popula. included has, besides, some little foreign trade. There is also a little manufacturing of gloves, snuff, and tobacco-pipes, and a good deal of ship-building. Fairs are held on the last Thursday in February, at Midsummer, and at Michaelmas, and the weekly markets are on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Chester is remarkable for its healthiness; as is proved by a comparative statement of the number of deaths, in proportion to the living, in the towns of London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and several others, where, upon an average, there die annually one out of every 24, and in Chester only one out of every 40. CLIFTON, or ROCK-SAVAGE, in Run- CLIVE, in Middlewich parish, and po- COGSHALL, in Budworth parish, and CHIDLOW, in Malpas parish, and popula. COMBERBACH, in Budworth parish, and po CHORLTON, in Backford parish, and po- CHOWLEY, in Coddington parish, and CHURTON, in Farndon parish, and po- popula. included therein. 4 miles from Northwich. CONGHALL, or COUGHALL, in Bachford parish, and popula. included therein. CONGLETON, in Astbury parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles S. from Macclesfield. Market, Satur.; fairs, Thurs. before Shrovetide, May 12, July 5, Nov. 22, cattle and pedlar ́s ware. COOL-PILATE, in Acton parish, and po- COTTON, in Sandbach parish, and popula. COTTON-ABBOTTS, in Christleton pa- po CREWE, in Barthomley parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles E.N.E. from Nantwich. CREWE, in Farndon parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles from Malpas. CROWLEY, in Budworth parish, and popula. included therein. CROWTON, in Weaverham parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles from Northwich. EATON, in Eccleston parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles S. from Chester. CROXTON, in Middlewich parish, and EATON, in Prestbury parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles W.S.W.from Congleton. popula. included therein. CUDDINGTON, in Malpas parish, and popula. included therein. CUDDINGTON, in Weaverham parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles from Northwich. DARESBURY, in Runcorn parish, and popula. included therein, near the banks of the Mersey, 6 miles from Chester. DAVENHAM, 3 miles N. from Middlewich. Popula. 3,470. DAVENPORT, in Astbury parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles S. from Northwich. DARNHALL, in Whitegate parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles from Middlewich. DELAMERE, 9 miles E. from Chester. Popula. 424. DISTLEY, in Stockport parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles from Stockport. DODCOT-CUM-WILKESLEY, in Audlem parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles from Nantwich., DODDINGTON, in Wybunbury parish, and popula. included therein. DODDLESTON, 34, miles S.W. from Chester. Popula. 351. DUCKINGFIELD, in Stockport parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile S. from Ashton-under-Lyne. EATON, in Tarporley parish, and popula. included therein. ECCLESTON, 1 mile S. from Chester. Popula. 358. EDGE, in Malpas parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles N. from Malpas. EDGERLEY, in Aldford parish, and popula. included therein. EGERTON, in Malpas parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles N.N.E. from Malpas. EDDISBURY, in Delamere parish, and popula. included therein. EDDLESTONE, in Acton parish, and popula. included therein. ELTON, in Thornton parish, and popula. included therein. ELTON, in Warmingham parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles W. from Sandbach. ETCHELLS, partly in Northen and partly in Stockport parishes, and popula. returned with them. 14 mile from Stockport. FADDILEY, in Acton parish, and popula. included therein. 34 miles N.W. from Nantwich. FALLYBROOM, in Prestbury parish, and - popula. included therein. 1 mile from Macclesfield. DUCKINGTON, in Malpas parish, and FARNDON, 7 miles S. from Chester. popula. included therein. DUDDEN, in Tarvin parish, and popula. included therein. Between Clotton and Tarvin. DUNHAM, in Thornton parish, and popula. included therein. DUNHAM-MASSEY, in Bowdon parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile S. from Altringham. DUTTON, in Budworth parish, and popula. included therein. On the banks of the Grand Trunk canal, 4 miles W.N.W. from Northwich. Popula. 857. FOULK-STAPLEFORD, in Tarvin parish, FRANKBY, in West-Kirby parish, and popula. included therein. FRITH, in Wrenbury parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Nantwich. FRODSHAM, 7 miles N.W. from Northwich. Popula. 5,451. Market, Wed.; fairs, May 15, Aug. 21, cattle and pedlary. EASTHAM, 10 miles N. from Chester. FULSHAW, in Wilmslow parish, and po Popula. 1,430. EATON, in Davenham parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles from Congleton. pula. included therein. 11 miles from Congleton. GAWSWORTH, 3 miles S.W, from Macclesfield. Popula. 804. D GAYTON, in Heswall parish, and popula. | HATHERTON, in Wybunbury parish, and included therein. 1 mile from Parkpopula. included therein. 3 miles S. by W. from Sandbach. gate. GODLEY, in Mottram parish, and popula. HATTERSLEY, in Mottram parish, and included therein. GOLBORN-BELLOW, in Tattenhall parish, and popula. included therein. Near Bunbury, 7 miles S.E. from Chester. GOLBORN-DAVID, in Handley parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles S.E. from Chester. GOOSTREY, with BARNSHAW, in Sandbach parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles N. from Sandbach. GRAFTON, in Tilston parish, and popula. included therein, GRANGE, in West-Kirby parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles from Parkgate. GRAPPENHALL, 8 miles N.W. from GUILDEN-SUTTON, 2 miles N.E. from HALE, in Bowdon parish, and popula. included therein, 2 miles S.E. from Altringham. HALTON, in Runcorn parish, and popula. included therein. 8 miles N.W. from Northwich. Market, Sat.; fair, Sept. 19. HAMPTON, in Malpas parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles from Malpas. HANDFORTH, with Boxden, in Cheadle parish, and popula. returned therewith. 7 miles N. from Macclesfield, HANDLEY, 5 miles S.E. from Chester. Popula. 322. HANKELOW, in Audlem parish, and popula. included therein. HAPSFORD, in Thornton parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles from Chester. HARTFORD, in Great Budworth parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile S.W. from Northwich. HARTHILL, 4 miles S.W. from Tarporley. Popula. 147.' HASLINGTON, in Barthomley parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles S. from Sandbach. HASSALL, in Sandbach parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles from Sandbach. popula. included therein. HATTON, in Rosthern parish, and popula. included therein. HATTON, in Waverton parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Chester. HAUGHTON, in Bunbury parish, and popula. included therein. HELSBY, in Frodsham parish, and popula. included therein. 12 miles W. from Northwich. HENBURY with PEXALL, in Prestbury parish, and popula. included therein. 14 mile W. from Macclesfield. HENHULL, in Acton parish, and popula. included therein. HESWALL, with OLDFIELD, 2 miles N.W. from Parkgate. Popula. 386. HOCKENHULL, in Tarvin parish, and popula. included therein. HOLLINGWORTH, in Mottram parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile from Stockport. HOOLE, in Plemonstal parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles from Chester. HOOSE, in West-Kirby parish, and popula. included therein. HOOTON, in Eastham parish, and popula. included therein. 8 miles from Chester. HORTON, with PEELE, in Tarvin parish, and popula, included therein. HORTON, in Tilston parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles from Malpas. HOUGH, in Wybunbury parish, and popula. included therein, 3 miles from Nantwich. HULL and APPLETON, in Budworth parish, and popula. included therein. HULME-WALFIELD, in Astbury parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles from Knutsford. HULSE, in Budworth parish, and popula. included therein. HUNSTERSON, in Wybunbury parish, and popula. included therein. HURDSFIELD, in Prestbury parish, and popula. included therein. HURLESTON, in Acton parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile from Nantwich. |