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Minshull-Vernon

MINSHULL-VERNON, a township, in the parish of Middlewich, union of Nantwich, hundred of Northwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from Middlewich, on the road to Nantwich; containing 403 inhabitants. The manor belonged anciently to the Vernons, from whom it passed to the family of Aldeton, sometimes called Oldington and Oulton; it was subsequently divided among the Starkies, Newtons, and Minshulls. In the reign of Elizabeth, the whole manor was purchased by Thomas Aston, Esq., of Aston, whose descendant, Sir Willoughby Aston, Bart., was possessed of it in 1701. It afterwards became the property of Henry Newport, Earl of Bradford; at a later period the Pulteney family had the estate, and on the death of Sir William Pulteney, Bart., in 1806, it passed to the Earl of Darlington. The township comprises 2628 acres: three-fourths of the soil are clay; one-fourth is sand. The surface is level, the air mild and salubrious, and the scenery pretty near the river Weaver, which separates the township from Church-Minshull. Facility is afforded by canal for the conveyance of coal and stone; and here is a station on the line of the Liverpool and Birmingham railway. Lord Mansfield, J. F. France, Esq., of Bostock Hall, and Edward Loyd, Esq., are now proprietors of land. The Independents and Wesleyans have places of worship; and a national school is supported by subscription. There is a moat near a farm called the Mote Farm.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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