Kingsley, Cheshire

Description
Kingsley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Frodsham civil parish, Cheshire. The village stands near Delamere Forest, 3 miles SE of Frodsham station on the L. & N.W. and Birkenhead railways, and 3 W of Acton station on the L. & N.W.R., and has a post office under Warrington; telegraph office, Frodsham. The township extends to the river Weaver, and comprises 2709 acres; population, 1111. Finney Hill is a lofty eminence, and a pit of good rock marl is near it. The ecclesiastical parish includes also the township of Newton-by-Frodsham, and was constituted in 1851. Population, 1209. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £181 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Frodsham. The church was built in 1850 from designs by Sir Gilbert Scott, and was restored In 1880. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Free Methodist chapels.