Description
Hulme Walfield, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Astbury parish, Cheshire, near the boundary with Staffordshire, 2 miles N of Congleton. Post town, Congleton. Acreage, 1058; population, 115. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1878, and includes also the townships of Somerford-Booths and Radnor; population, 346. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Eector of Astbury. The church was built in 1856, is a handsome edifice, comprising nave, chancel, and N aisle, and stands on an elevated spot commanding extensive views. The township is said to derive its name of Walfield from the existence of a Roman camp, but the exact site can only now be conjectured.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
