Description
Occlestone, a township, with a scattered village, in Middlewich parish, Cheshire, on the river Wheelock, near the Shropshire Union Canal, 2 1/2 miles SSW of Middlewich. The manor belonged, from before the time of King John till after the time of Henry V., to the family of Occlestone; passed to successively the Bunburys, the Moretons, the Davenports, the Whitmores, and the Vernons, and belongs now to the Court family. The manor house is now used as a farmhouse. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
