Withington, Lower

WITHINGTON, LOWER, a township, in the parish of Prestbury, union and hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, 7 miles (N. N. W.) from Congleton; containing 782 inhabitants, and comprising 1681 acres of land. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Tunsted, a hill in the township, is supposed, from its Saxon etymology, viz., "the place of a town," to have been the site of an ancient ville of some consequence.