Description
Holmes Chapel or Church Hulme, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Sandbach parish, Cheshire, on the river Daine, 4 miles E of Middlewich, and 5 N of Sandbach. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Crewe, and a station on the Crewe and Stockport section of the L. & N.W.R., both bearing the name Holmes Chapel. The township comprises 905 acres; population, 860; of the chapelry, 1150. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Sandbach. The church is ancient, dating from the 12th century, and is in perfect restoration, having been repaired gradually in recent years. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
