Description
Audlem, a market-town a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The town is 6 miles S of Nantwich, and has a station on the Crewe and Wellington branch of the G.W.R., a post office under Nantwich, and two banks. Acreage, 2348; population, 1371. There is a market on Thursdays. The parish includes also the townships of Buerton, Hankelow, and Titley (or Tittenley), with parts of Dodcot-cum-Wilkeley and Newhall. Population, 2410. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £297. Patron, Viscount Combermere. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1885. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. The parish is purely agricultural.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
