Wybunbury, Cheshire

Description
Wybunbury, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The village stands 3 miles SE of Willaston station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 1/2 E of Nantwich, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Nantwich. The township comprises 850 acres; population, 544. The parish contains also the townships of Batherton, Blakenhall, Hatherton, Hough, Lea, Rope, Shavington-cum-Gresty, Stapeley, Walgherton, and Willaston, and the ecclesiastical parishes of Doddington (comprising the townships of Doddington, Bridgemere, Checkley-cum-Wrinehill, and Hunsterson) and Weston (comprising the townships of Weston, Basford, and Chorlton). Acreage, 19,091; population of the civil parish, 7056; of the ecclesiastical, 5494. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1893 in the Perpendicular style. There are numerous dissenting chapels.