lnce, Cheshire
Historical Description
lnce, a village and a parish in Cheshire. The village stands adjacent to the Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, 5½ miles W by S of Frodsham, and has a station called Ince and Eiton on the Helsby and Hooton branch of the Birkenhead railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office, under Chester. Acreage 1731 of land and 4058 of water, including 266 tidal water and 3784 foreshore; population, 1080, of whom at the time of the census 772 were engaged in the construction of the Manchester Ship CanaL The manor with all the land belonged to the abbots of St Werburgh, Chester, went at the dissolution to Sir Richard Cotton, passed to the Cholmondeleys, the Wynne, the Waring, and the Yates families. Ince Hall was built in 1849, and is an edifice of white freestone in the Italian style-Traces of a monastic establishment exist in what are now the houses of a farmstead. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value,, £253 with residence. The church consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with a tower, and was restored in 1854.
Civil Registration
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Land and Property
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Visitations Heraldic
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