Delamere, Cheshire

Description
Delamere, a township and a parish in Cheshire. The township lies 1 1/2 mile from Delamere station on the Cheshire Lines railway, 5 1/2 miles W by S of Hartford, and 10 E by N of Chester, and gives the title of Baron to the family of Cholmondeley. Acreage, 1469; population, 512. The parish contains also the townships of Eddisbury, Oakmere, and Kingswood, and its post town is Kelsall, under Northwich. Acreage, 8934; population, 1411. The area was extra-parochial till 1812; was anciently a royal forest abounding with wood and deer; had become waste and barren; and is now in great extent enclosed and cultivated. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church was built in 1817, and restored in 1878. There are Presbyterian and New Connexion Methodist chapels.