Norley, Cheshire

Description
Norley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Frodsham parish, Cheshire. The village stands near Delamere Forest, 3 miles WSW of Acton Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 1/2 SE of Frodsham, is a scattered place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Warrington. A temperance hall was built in 1874, and a Foresters' hall in 1888. The township comprises 1411 acres; population, 689. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1861; population, 694. Norley House and Norley Hall are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £155 with residence. The church was built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1879. There are Wesleyan, Free, and Primitive Methodist chapels.