Description
Marthall, a township in Rostheme parish, and an ecclesiastical parish partly also in Knutsford parish, Cheshire. The township lies 1 mile WNW of Chelford station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 1/2 miles SE by E of Knntsford. Post town, Knutsford; money order and telegraph office, Chelford. Acreage, 1799 ; population, 223. The ecclesiastical'parish was constituted in 1840, and includes the township of OUerton. Population, 492. Ollerton Hall, (built in 1728, is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £183 with residence. Patron, Lord Egerton of Tatton. The church is a plain brick building, and was enlarged in 1887.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
