Description
Dunham-on-the-Hill or Dunham Hill, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Thornton-le-Moors parish, Cheshire, 5 1/2 miles NE of Chester, with a station on the Birkenhead and L. & N.W. railway, and a post office under Warrington; money order and telegraph office, Helsby. Acreage, 1404; population, 287. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1888. Population, 373. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, £132 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Thornton-in-the-Moor. The church was erected in 1861.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
