Thornton le Moors, Cheshire

Description
Thornton-le-Moors, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The village is 2 1/2 miles SW of Dunham Hill station on the Warrington and Chester railway, and 6 1/2 SSE of Chester. Post town, Chester; money order and telegraph office, Ince. The township comprises 1232 acres; population, 145. The parish contains also the townships of Eiton and Wimbolds Trafford. Acreage, 5065; population of the civil parish, 814; of the ecclesiastical, 441. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £360 with residence. Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1879. Dunham-on-the-Hill was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1888, and contains the townships of Dunham-on-the-Hill and Hapsford. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.