Capesthorne, Cheshire

Description
Capesthorne, a township-chapelry in Prestbury parish, Cheshire, 2 1/2 miles ESE of Chelford station on the Crewe and Manchester section of the L. & N.W.R., and 5 W by S of Macclesfield. Post town, Crewe; money order and telegraph office, Chelford. Acreage, 744; population of the township, 114; of the ecclesiastical parish, 520. Capesthorne Hall is a seat of the Davenports, to whom it passed in 1748 by marriage with an heiress of the Ward family; the estate had been in the hands of the latter family since the time of Edward III.; the mansion is Elizabethan, and is surrounded by extensive grounds and a well-wooded park, which contains a large lake called Keedsmere. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Siddington, in the diocese of Chester; net value, £365 with residence. The church was built in 1722, and was restored in 1888.