Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHITLEY (Lower)

WHITLEY (Lower), a chapelry in Great Budworth parish, Cheshire; consisting of W.-Inferior and W.-Superior townships. Acres, 2,129. Pop., 578. Houses, 115. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £130.* Patron, Sir J. M. L. Chetwode, Bart. The church is in W.-Inferior, and was improved in 1865. A national school also is there; and a Wesleyan chapel is in W.-Superior.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Great Budworth AP/Tn/CP       Lower Whitley Tn/CP       Cheshire AncC
Place names: LOWER WHITLEY     |     WHITLEY     |     WHITLEY LOWER
Place: Lower Whitley

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