Ashton, Cheshire

Description
Ashton, a township and a village, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Tarvin parish, Cheshire. The township lies near Delamere Forest, 1 1/2 mile SW of Mouldsworth station on the Cheshire Lines railway system, 2 1/2 miles N by E of Tarvin, and 7 NE of Chester, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Kelsall. Acreage, 1324; population, 367. The ecclesiastical parish (population, 589) is called Ashton Hayes, and was constituted in 1849. It includes also the townships of Horton-cum-Peele and Moulds-worth. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, nominally £160 with residence. Patrons, Trustees. The church is modern, in the Perpendicular style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.