Description
Moreton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Bidstone parish, Cheshire. The township is 4 1/4 miles WNW of Birkenhead, bears the name of Moreton-cum-Lingham, and has a station, of the name of Moreton, on the Wirral railway. Post town, Birkenhead. Acreage, 1202; population, 464. There is a lighthouse at Lingham. The ecclesiastical parish contains also the township of Saughall Massie, and was constituted in 1863. Population, 653. The manor belongs to the Vyner family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £128 with residence. The church was built in 1863, is in the Early English style, of local white stone, and has a spire 100 feet high.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
