Tarvin, Cheshire

Description
Tarvin, a village, a township, a parish, and the head of a poor law union in Cheshire. The village stands 2 miles ESE of Barrow station on the Cheshire Lines railway, 4 1/2 NW of Tarporley, and 5 1/2 E of Chester; was once a market town; and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chester. The public hall, erected in 1889, contains a large room, used for concerts, &c. The township includes Oscroft hamlet, and comprises 2044 acres; population, 1193. The parish contains also the townships of Bruen Stapleford, Barton, Clotton Hoofield, Daddon, Hockenhull, and Kelsall. Acreage, 6943; population of the civil parish, 2655; of the ecclesiastical, with Pryors Hayes (formerly extra-parochial), 2680. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £142 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church is Decorated and Perpendicular, and was restored in 1876 and 1892. It consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, the Bruen chapel, and a fine tower. The chancel has good oak carving and a brass of 1584 to Henry Hardware, twice mayor of Chester. There are chapels of ease at Duddon and Kelsall, and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.