Description
Pulford, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Dee, at the boundary with Denbighshire, 1 1/2 mile NE of Rossett station on the G.W.R., and 5 S by W of Chester, and has a post office under Wrexham; money order and telegraph office, Rossett. The township comprises 1184 acres; population, 298. The ecclesiastical parish contains also the township of Poulton, and comprises 2589 acres; population, 468. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £118 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Westminster. The church was built on the site of a very ancient one in 1833 and rebuilt in 1884.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
