Description
Childer-Thornton or Thornton-Childer, a village and a township in Hooton ecclesiastical and Eastham civil parish, Cheshire, 1 mile from Little Sutton station on the Helsby and Hooton branch of the Birkenhead railway, 1 E of Hooton, and 9 miles S of Birkenhead. Acreage of the township, 746 ; population, 743. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
