Description
Stanlow, formerly extra-parochial, now a parish in Cheshire, on the Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, 1 1/2 mile SE of Ellesmere Port station on the Birkenhead railway, and 9 miles N of Chester. Acreage, 217, with 99 of adjacent tidal water and 347 of foreshore; the population in 1891 was 422, of whom 320 were engaged in the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal. A Cistercian abbey was founded here by John de Lacy, Constable of Chester, in 1170, became a cell to Whalley Abbey, and has left some remains.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
