Daresbury, Cheshire

Description
Daresbury, a village and a parish in Cheshire, 4 1/4 miles SW by S of Warrington. There are two stations–one on the Warrington and Chester Joint line, and the other on the L. & N.W.R.–and a post office under Warrington ; money order and telegraph offices, Moore and Preston Brook. Acreage, 607; population of civil parish, 152 ; of ecclesiastical, 1835. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1879, and includes also the townships and villages of Hatton, Keckwich, Moore, Newton-by-Daresbury, and Preston-on-the-Hill. Daresbury is a seat of petty sessions. Daresbury Hall, the property of the Greenall family, is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £270. The church is Perpendicular, and was rebuilt in 1773, and restored in 1871. It contains monuments and brasses, a carved oak pulpit, faldstool and lectern, and a carved oak screen between the nave and church.