Description
Moulton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Davenham parish, Cheshire, 3 miles S of Northwich. There is a post and money order office under Northwich; telegraph office, Davenham. Acreage of township, 475; population, 1143. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. There are extensive salt works, and also a free library. Moulton Hall estate belonged formerly to the Bostock family. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1878. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £'223 with residence. Patron, the Kector of Davenham. The church was built in 1877, and is in the Early English style. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
