Mooresbarrow, with Parme
MOORESBARROW, with Parme, a township, in the parish of Middlewich, union and hundred of Northwich, S. division of the county of Chester, 2¾ miles (E. by S.) from Middlewich; containing 36 inhabitants. The manor, which had been given by Edward I. to the abbey of Vale-Royal, was granted by Edward VI. to Thomas Browne; it passed afterwards by successive sales to the Brookes, of Norton, and the family of Venables. Lord Vernon, who inherited the Venables estates, sold the manor, about 1792, to Mr. Perrin, of Warrington. The township comprises 407 acres, the soil of which is clay. The Hall and demesne belonged formerly to the Whittinghams: the site of the house is surrounded by a moat.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.