Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for THELWALL

THELWALL, a township-chapelry, with a village, in Runcorn parish, Cheshire; on the river Mersey, the Bridgewater canal, and the Manchester, Lymm, and Warrington railway, 3 miles E by S of Warrington. It has a post-office under Warrington, and a r. station. Acres, 1,417. Real property, £3,766. Pop. in 1851, 347; in 1861, 468 Houses, 81. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Cholmondeley. T. Hall is the seat of J. Nicholson, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £150.* Patron, J. Nicholson, Esq. The church was built in 1842, and is in the early English style. There is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Runcorn CP/AP       Thelwall CP/Ch       Cheshire AncC
Place: Thelwall

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