Description
Beeston, a township in Bunbury parish, Cheshire. 2 miles S of Tarporley, 2 WNW of Bunbury, and 10 1/2 SE by E of Chester. It has a station (Beeston Castle and Tarporley) on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Tarporley. Acreage, 1965 ; population, 302. Beeston Castle, 3/4 mile from the station, crowns an isolated sandstone rock, 366 feet high, and commands a charming view of Chester, the estuaries of the Dee and Mersey on the N, and the mountains of Denbighshire on the W. The castle was built as a fortress in 1228 by Ranulph de Blundeville, sixth Earl of Chester, was dismantled in 1645 by order of Parliament, and is now an extensive and picturesque ruin.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
