Description
Huxley, a village and a township in Hargrave ecclesiastical and Waverton civil parish, Cheshire. The village stands near the Chester Canal, 1 1/2 mile N of Tattenhall Road station on the L. & N.W.E., and 3 1/2 miles WSW of Tarporley, and has a post office under Chester; money order and telegraph office, Tattenhall, The township comprises 1555 acres; population, 229. Lower Huxley Hall belonged to the Clive family, and is a fine old moated mansion. Higher Huxley Hall belonged to the Savages, and passed to the Cholmonde-ley family. There are a chapel of ease and Primitive and New Connexion Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
