Description
Budworth, Little, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire, on an affluent of the river Weaver, near Delamere Forest, 4 miles SE of Delamere station on the Cheshire Lines railway, and 3 NE by E of Tarporley. There is a post and telegraph office. Acreage of the civil parish, 3867; population, 585 ; of the ecclesiastical, 534. Oulton Park is the chief residence, situated in an extensive deer park. The Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot is lord of the manor. The living is an impropriated rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £150 with residence. The ancient church belonged to St Mary's Nunnery in Chester, and was rebuilt in 1800.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
