Great Budworth, Cheshire

Description
Budworth, Great, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The village lies on the Grand Trunk Canal, near the river Weaver, 2 1/2 miles N of Northwich, under which it has a post office; money order office, Marston; telegraph office, Comberbach. Acreage, of township, 903 ; population, 510. The ancient parish includes the following ecclesiastical parishes:- Great Budworth (containing the townships of Great Budworth, Aston-by-Budworth, Cogshall, Comberbach, Crowley, Marbury, Pickmere, and Tabley-Inferior), population, 2010; Antrobus (Antrobus and Sevenoaks), population, 602 ; Barnton (Barnton and Anderton), population, 2666 ; Little Leigh (Little Leigh, Bartington, and Dutton), population, 888; Lower Peover (Peover-Nether, Peover-Inferior, Allostock, and Plumley), population, 1234; Lostock-Gralam (Lostock-Gralam, Lach Dennis, and part of Wincham), population, 1596 ; Whitley (Higher Whitley and Lower Whitley), population, 508; Witton (Witton-cum-Twambrooks, Northwich, Castle Northwich, and Winnington), population, 12,033; Marston (Marston and part of Wincham), population, 1671; the following townships and ecclesiastical parishes:-Appleton (population, 375) and Stretton (population, 651); and parts of the ecclesiastical parishes of Aston-by-Sutton, Hartford, Danebridge, and Stockton Heath. Budworthmere and Pickmere are small lakes. Many of the inhabitants are employed in salt works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £340. Patron, Christ Church College, Oxford. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1870, has an embattled tower, and contains monuments of the Pooles, the Warburtons, and the Leycesters.