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Thingwell

THINGWELL, or Thingwall, a township, in the parish of Woodchurch, union, and Lower division of the hundred, of Wirrall, S. division of the county of Chester, 5½ miles (N. by W.) from Great Neston; containing 76 inhabitants. In the reign of Richard II. this place was held by the Domvilles, from whom it passed, through the Hulses and the Troutbecks, to the ancestors of the Earl of Shrewsbury, the present owner of the greater part. In 1662 the manor was claimed by the Earl of Kingston, the Earl of Shrewsbury, and Sir William Stanley, all of whom held lands in the township; and by some arrangement it was divided between the two former. Thingwell comprises 360 acres, the soil of which is partly clay and partly sand; it stands high, and is almost destitute of trees. The land is in general very inferior, and interspersed with large masses of redsandstone, which in many parts is quarried from the surface.

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

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