Warburton

"WARBURTON, a parish in the hundred of Bucklow, county Chester, 7 miles N.E. of Warrington, its post town, 2½ from Lymm, and about 1 mile from the Warburton station on the Warrington and Stockport line of railway. The village, which was formerly a market town, is situated on the river Mersey. Prior to the reign of Henry II. there was founded here a Premonstratensian priory as a cell to Cockersand Abbey. In the parish is an extensive flour mill, worked by the river Bollin, which passes through this parish, and separates it from Lymm. The surface is flat, and the chief produce cheese and potatoes. The soil is a sandy loam, with a subsoil of stiff clay and sandstone rock. Remains of the market cross still exist. The living is a perpetual curacy,* annexed to the second mediety of the rectory of Lymm, in the diocese of Chester. The church, dedicated to St. Werburgh, contains brasses of the 17th century. The parochial charities produce about £3 per annum. There are National and Sunday-schools for both sexes, supported by the Rev. D. A. Beaufort, M.A. R. E. Warburton, Esq., is lord of the manor."