Warmingham, Cheshire

Description
Warmingham, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The village lies on the river Wheelock, 2 1/4 miles W of Sandbach station and the same distance E of Minshull Vernon station on the Manchester and Liverpool branches of the L. & N.W.R., and 4 W of the town of Sandbach. It has a post office under Sandbach; money order and telegraph office, Elworth. Acreage of township, 2121; population, 264. The parish also contains the townships of Elton, Moston, and Tetton. Acreage of the civil parish, 4949; population, 1087; of the ecclesiastical parish, 669. There is a parish council with eight members. There are extensive bone works and also brick and tile yards. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £491 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Crewe. The church was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style in 1870, with the exception of the tower, which dates from 1715, and contains a peal of six bells. . There is a Wesleyan chapel in the township of Elton.