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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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KINGSLEY, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Frodsham parish, Cheshire. The village stands near Delamere forest, 3 miles SE of Frodsham r. station: and has a post office under Preston Brook.-The township extends to the river Weaver, and comprises 2, 606 acres. Real property, £4, 940. Pop., 995. Houses, 209. The manor belongs to A. H. S. Barry, Esq. Finney hill here is a lofty eminence; and a pit of good rock marl is near it.—The chapelry includes also the township of Newton-by-Frodsham, and was constituted in 1851. Acres, 3, 022. Real property, £5, 958. Pop., 1, 131. Houses, 233. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £80. * Patron, the Vicar of Frodsham. The church was built in 1850; is in the early English style; and comprises nave, N aisle, chancel, and S porch, with tower and small spire. There are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Free Methodists, an endowed school with £20 a year, and national schools.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Frodsham CP/AP Kingsley CP/Tn Cheshire AncC |
| Place: | Kingsley |
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