Minshull Vernon, Cheshire

Description
Minshull Vernon, a village and a township in Middlewich parish, Cheshire. The village stands on the river Weaver, 4 miles S by W of Middlewich; is a scattered place, and has a station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Crewe. The township contains also the village of Bradfield Green, and comprises 2737 acres; population, 339. It has a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belonged anciently to the Vernons; passed to the Odlintons, the Actons, the Earl of Bradford, the Pulteneys, and the Earl of Darlington; and belongs now to the Lloyd family. Hulgrave Hall was formerly the seat of the Hulgraves, and is now a farmhouse. The ecclesiastical parish of Leighton-cum-Minshull Vernon was constituted in 1849. Population, 503. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £175. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church stands at Bradfield Green; was built in 1854 at a cost of £1700; is in the Early English style; and consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret. There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels at Bradfield Green and Cross Lanes.