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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"HARTHILL, a parish in the higher division of the hundred of Broxton, county Chester, 2½ miles from Tattenhall, its post town, and 6 N. of Malpas. The village is small, and situated on rising ground at a short distance from the road leading from Tarporley and Nantwich to Wrexham. The surface is undulating, and the lower lands are watered by a brook which has its rise in the parish, and expands at one point into a lake called Harthill Pool, of about four acres. The soil is chiefly a light loam, with a small portion of peat. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £42. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Chester, value £114. Belonging to the living is a farm in Is-y-Coed Holt, Denbighshire. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient stone structure. The parochial charities produce about £22 per annum. The Sunday-school is held at the church. -Mackenzie, Esq., is lord of the manor."