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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"THURSTASTON, a parish and township in the lower division of Wirrall hundred, county Chester, 5 miles N.W. of Great Neston, and 7 S.W. of Birkenhead. The village is situated on the river Dee. The parish includes the hamlets of Grasby and Irby. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester, value £242, in the patronage of the dean and chapter. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, has been recently rebuilt. The parochial charities produce about £31 per annum. A Sunday-school is held at the church. Colonel Clegg is lord of the manor."
"DALPOOL, a hamlet in the parish of Thurstaston, hundred of Wirrall, in the S. division of the county of Chester, 5 miles N.W. of Parkgate."