Wrenbury

"WRENBURY, a parish in the hundred of Nantwich, county Chester, 5 miles S.W. of Nantwich, and 6 N.E. of Whitchurch. It is a station on the Crew, Whitchurch, and Shrewsbury branch of the London and North-Western railway. The parish includes the townships of Broomhall, Chorley, Dodcott-cum-Wilkesley, Newhall, Sound, and Woodcott, with the hamlet of Wrenbury Frith. The river Weaver, and the Chester and Ellesmere canal, pass through the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Chester, value £150, in the patronage of the Vicar of Acton. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. In the chancel are mural tablets of the Starkey and Cotton families. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel. There are free, National, and Sunday schools. The charities produce about £100 per annum. The Marquis of Cholmondeley is lord of the manors of Wrenbury and Chorley, and the Earl of Kilmore of the manors of Broomhall and Woodcott. Mrs. Beckett is lady of the manor of Sound."

"BROOMHALL, a township in the parish of Wrenbury, hundred of Nantwich, in the county palatine of Chester, 3 miles to the S. of Nantwich."

"CHORLEY, a township in the parish of Wrenbury, in the hundred of Nantwich, in the county of Chester, 2 miles N.W. of Wrenbury. The Primitive Methodists have a place of worship. The Marquis of Cholmondeley is lord of the manor."