Poole
POOLE, a township, in the parish of Acton, union and hundred of Nantwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 2¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Nantwich; containing 201 inhabitants. It comprises 720 acres, of which the soil is partly sand and partly clay. The Chester canal passes within its western boundary; and the railway from Chester to Crewe, which runs on the north, and the road from Nantwich to Tarporley and Chester, which pursues a course nearly parallel with the canal, also afford means of communication. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £40. 19. 1., and the vicarial for £23. 7. 4.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.