Witton, Cheshire Family History Guide

Witton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1723 from a chapelry in Great Budworth Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Castle Northwich, Birches, Northwich, Witton cum Twambrooks, Winnington, Northwich Holy Trinity, Rudheath Lordship, and Rudheath.

Alternative names: Northwich St Helen, Witton near Northwich, Witton Cum Twanbrooks

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Witton

• Parish registers: 1561
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597

Northwich Holy Trinity

• Parish registers: 1842
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Castle Northwich

• Parish registers: 1849
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Davenham
• Dane Bridge
• Lostock Gralam
• Middlewich
• Sandbach
• Byley
• Great Budworth

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WITTON-CUM-TWAMBROOKS, a township and a chapelry in Great Budworth parish, Cheshire.

The township lies on the river Dane, contiguous on the E to Northwich; includes a large suburb of that town; and has a public institution and reading room, a fine early English church, two Methodist chapels, an endowed grammar-school with £270 a year, national schools, charities £25, two breweries, an iron and brass foundry, flat and boat-building establishments, and numerous salt-works.

Acres, 588. Real property, £15,296; of which £80 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 3,493; in 1861, 3,677. Houses, 817. The manor belonged to the Vernons, and passed, in 1757, to the Leycesters.

The chapelry includes Northwich township, which has a head post-office and a r. station. Acres of the chapelry, 788. Pop., 4,867. Houses, 1,046. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £168. Patron, the Rev. R. Greenall.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WITTON, a township and parochial chapelry, in the parish of Great Budworth, union of Northwich, S. division of the county of Chester, ¼ of a mile (E.) from Northwich; the township containing 3338 inhabitants.

The chapelry lies partly in Eddisbury hundred, and partly in that of Northwich. In the former are the townships of Castle-Northwich, Hartford, and Winnington; in the latter, those of Witton-cum-Twambrooke, Northwich, Birches, Hulse, Lach-Dennis, and Lostock-Gralam. The whole is divided into four districts called Quarters, namely, Northwich, Hartford, Lostock-Gralam, and Witton. In the township of Witton-cum-Twambrooke are 482 acres, the soil of which is of a sandy nature.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £168; patron, the Rev. Richard Greenall. The chapel, dedicated to St. Helen, is a noble and spacious structure in the later English style, with an embattled tower.

The free grammar school, adjoining the cemetery, was founded in 1588, by Sir John Deane, who endowed it with a salt-work at Northwich, and certain houses and lands in other parts of the county, now producing an income of about £270. The school-house, rebuilt about a century since, is a substantial structure of brick and stone, with a commodious suite of apartments for the master.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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Administration

• County: Cheshire
• Civil Registration District: Northwich
• Probate Court: Pre-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1540 – Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Pre-1541 – Lichfield and Coventry, Post-1540 – Chester
• Rural Deanery: Frodsham
• Poor Law Union: Northwich
• Hundred: Northwich
• Province: York