Description
Crowton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Weaverham parish, Cheshire. The village is on the river Weaver, 1 mile W of Acton Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles W of Weaverham, and 4 of Northwich. It has a post office under Northwich; money order and telegraph office, Norlcy. The township includes the village of Onston. Acreage, 1738; population, 531. The ecclesiastical parish includes also part of Norley St John, and was constituted in 1872; population, 534. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron the Vicar of Weaverham. The church was built in 1871, There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
