Sproston
SPROSTON, a township, in the parish of Middlewich, union and hundred of Northwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 2¼ miles (E.) from Middlewich; containing 171 inhabitants. It comprises 830 acres, the soil of which is clay, with some moss. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £86.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.