Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WORLESTON

WORLESTON, a township, with a r. station, in Acton parish, Cheshire; on the Chester and Crewe railway, 1¾ mile N of Nantwich. Acres, 1,122. Real property, £2,626. Pop., 368. Houses, 76. Rees heath Hall is the seat of H Leader, Esq.; Rookery Hall, of J. R. Court, Esq.; and the Grange, of H. Behrens, Esq. There are a U. free Methodist chapel, and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township, with a r station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Acton CP/AP       Worleston CP/Tn       Cheshire AncC
Place: Worleston

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