Description
Barnton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Great Budworth parish, Cheshire. The township lies on the river Weaver and the North Staffordshire Canal, 2 miles NW of Northwich, and has a post and telegraph office under that town. Acreage, 760; population, 2297. The ecclesiastical parish includes the township of Anderton, and was constituted in 1843. Population, 2666. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £195 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church was erected in 1842. There are Wesleyan and Free and Primitive Methodist chapels. The inhabitants are chiefly employed at the extensive chemical works which are close to the village.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
