Description
Cholmondeley, a township in Malpas parish, Cheshire, 4 miles NE of Malpas, and 8 W of Nantwich. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Malpas. Acreage, 2657 ; population, 318. Cholmondeley Castle, the seat of the Marquis of Cholmondeley, is a modern Norman castellated building, erected in 1804, situated on an eminence in an extensive and well-wooded park ; it has a chapel. The previous castle was garrisoned in 1643 for Charles I., and captured by the Parliamentary army, but retaken in 1644 by the Earl of Denbigh.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
