Description
Neston, a parish in Cheshire, on the estuary of the Dee, around the town of Great Neston. It contains the townships of Great Neston, Little Neston, Ness, Willaston, Ledsham, Raby, Thomton Hough, and Leighton. Acreage, 10,567; population of the civil parish, 5342; of the ecclesiastical, 3704. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £400 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chester. Thomton Hough and Willaston are separate ecclesiastical parishes.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
