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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"LYMM, a parish in the hundred of Bucklow, county palatine of Chester, 5 miles S.E. of Warrington, its post town, and 7 N.W. of Knutsford. The Manchester, Lymm, and Warrington section of the London and North-Western railway has a station here. It is situated in the vicinity of the river Mersey. The Bridgwater canal passes through the parish; which includes the hamlets of Cliffe Lane and Heathley Heath. Fustian is manufactured here. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £500. The living of the first mediety is a rectory, value £349; that of the second mediety is also a rectory,* value with the curacy of Warburton annexed, £249, in the diocese of Chester. The church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, is a modern structure. There are some remains of the old church. The various charities amount to nearly £100 per annum. The Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel, and there is a free school for boys, also a National school for both sexes. Near the church is an old stone cross, the base of which is cut out of the solid rock. Lymm Hall, Statham Lodge, and Oughtrington Hall are the principal seats. At Heathley Heath are many good residences, chiefly occupied by merchants of Warrington."