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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"STOKE, a parish and township in the higher division of Wirrall hundred, county Chester, 5 miles N.E. of Chester, its post town, and 3½ E. of Mollington. The village is situated on the Mersey canal. The parish includes the township of Little Stanney and Whitby. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Chester, value £130. The church, dedicated to St. Laurence, is an ancient structure, and was restored in 1827. The parochial charities produce about £28 per annum."

"LITTLE STANNEY, a township in the parish of Stoke, hundred of Higher Wirrall, county Chester, 1 mile S.W. of Great Stanney, and 6½ miles N. of Chester.

"WHITBY, a township in the parishes of Eastham and Stoke, higher division of Wirrall hundred, county Chester, 6 miles N. of Chester. The village is situated near the Dee and Mersey canal, which here communicates with the river Mersey, on which are extensive docks and wharves."