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208 CHELFORD. CHESHIRE. [KELLY'Si^ublic Elementary School (mixed), rebuilt in i8g2, fori8o children; average attendance, 103; k has anendowment of ^13 13s. yearly derived from the"bequests of John Parker esq. of Astle Hall, JohnBaskervUle Glegg esq. of Old Withington HaU (d.1877), &• others; Elijah Page, master"Railway Station, Joseph Holmes, station masterOLD WITHINGTON is a township, the houses of whichare scattered, 2 miles south from CheUord station on theLondon and North Westem raUway, John Baskervyle• ^]^Sg esq. is lord of the manor and prindpal landowner,Withington HaU, a handsome mansion standing in aweU-wooded park of 112 acres, with a lake, and the•j)roperty of J. B. Glegg esq. is occupied by H. J. Reissesq. The township contains 1,106 acres of land and g-of water; rateable value, ;^i,g42; the population in.•igoi was 121.CHELFORD.PBIVATE BESIDENTS.Bowyer Edward J. WoodlandsBroadhurst Ernest, DalefieldCooke WiUiam Henry, The GrangeDixon Lt.-Col. George J.P. Astle haUDixon Alfred Herbert, Astle cottageEllis Rev. Ernest Mostyn M.A.(curatein charge). VicarageElphinstone Lady Alice Dalrvmple,Bode SydeCrant Frank M. Mere LeighPhillips Edward MarkShepard Arthur Harold B.A., M.D"Tatton Reginald Arthur. Manor houseWelsh George Strafford, Chelford hoCOMMEBCIAL.Barber Edwd. coal merchant. Station'Basford Peter, farmer, AstleBaskerviUe Sydney, farmer,Abbey fmBoulderstone Jn.grcr. & miUer(steam)Burgess Ealph, blacksmithCaUwood Jane (Mrs.),farmr.EoadsideDale Frederick, farmer, Astle farm-Downes Samuel, reUeving officer kregistrar of births & deaths forAlderley k Gawsworth"Farrington William, coal agentGledhill Jsph. k Walter, coach bldrsLetters through Chelford S.O, which is the nearestmoney order k tele-graph office, 2 mUes distantSNELSON is a township partly in Over Peoverchapelry, but chiefly assigned in 1880 to Chelford, and4 mUes south-east from Knutsford, one west from ChelfordraUway station, in Rostherne parish, petty sessionaldivision of Prestbury, Macclesfield hundred, union andcounty court district. Here is a Wesleyan chapel buUtin 1825, H, Mainwaring esq, of Peover HaU, is lordof the manor; the trustees of Peover school andothers are the owners of the township. The area is427 acres; rateable value, ;^2,5o4; the population inigoi was 170.Gledhill Thomas Heald, Dixon'sArms hotel & brewer. The BreweryGledhiU Walter, farmer, AstleHaigh John David,grocer, k post officeHunt Jas. k Sons, coal mers. StationManchester k Liverpool DistrictBankingCo. Limited (open tues. k fri.10 a.m. to 2 p.m)Moore Joseph, tailorMoores Abraham, coal agent for LordVemon, StationMoss George, farmer. Yew Tree farmShepard Arthur Harold B.A., M.D.,B.Ch. k B.A.O.Dub. physidan kmedical officer k public vaccinatorAlderley k Gawseworth district,MacclesfieldunionTaylor John, cowkeeperWilson Thomas,jun.steward to Lieut.-Col. Dixon J.P. & farmerWITHINGTON (OLD).Beiss H. J. Withington hallCOMMEBCIAL.Aidley Wm.blacksmith,Dingle smithyBaskerviUe Jas. farmer. Lapwing farmBloor Alfred, farmer. Dairy houseBloor Ann (Mrs.), farmerBloor Saml. farmer. Oak Wood farmLetters through Chelford S.O. which is the nearestmoney order k telegraph office, i mile distantCartwright Samuel, farmerDakin Chas.agent for J. B. Glegg esqHarrop Samuel, cowkeeperHolden Alfred, cowkeeperHowarth John, farmerJackson Samuel, farmerMassey Daniel, cowkeeperSnelson Sarah (Mrs.), farmer. BrookHouse farmVenables John, farmerSNELSON.Donner Francis E. Montague, SnelsonhouseGibson MrsHoare JohnWalsh John Leopold, Lurch WoodWyatt Charles Henry, Hope cottageCOMMEBCIAL.Barber WUliam, farmerBeU Henry, farmerBucktrout Samuel Witlow, farmerClarke Samuel, assistant overseerDevonport Luke, farmerHenshall Oswald, farmerHigham Eobt. farmer, Highfield farmMassey Ernest, shopkeeperBead James, joiner &; builderShore Edward, farmerWorthington Balph, farmerCHESTER.'CHESTEE is a city and county of itself, and the capital•of the county of that name, a municipal, parUamentaryand county borough, sea port, head of a union, county•court districC and petty sessional division, in the Eddisburydivision of the county, and is pleasantly seated on> the north bank of the river Dee, a bend of which encirclesnearly one half of the city; it is distant from Bangor-3gJ miles, Birmingham 74, Birkenhead 15, Bolton 36^,Cheadle 37, Crewe 21J, Conway 45J, FUnt 12J, Frodshamg, Glossop 65, Holyhead 84J, Holywell 16!, HuU'150, Liverpool 17, London i79i, Manchester 40, Mold13J, Nantwich 17^, Oswestry 26J, Oxford 150, Euabon 17,Sandbach 26i, Shrewsbury 38!, Shifnal 59^, Stafford46J, Stockport 39I, Stoke 36I, Sheffield 80, Warrington18, Wrexham 12, WeUington 4gJ and Wolverhampton 61J." The city stands at the extremity of Broxton hundred anda,t the east end of the peninsula of Wirral, and adjoining"Flintshire, and is in the rural deanery, archdeaconry and-diocese of Chester. Few places in the kingdom presentto the antiquary attractions of more varied characterthan this ancient city: it is rich in memorable incidentsand associations, and has a history chronicled not onlyin books, but in its waUs, ecclesiastical and other buildings,its unique "rows" and other venerable remains.Chester may not improbably have been a very earlySiberian or British town, and it most certainly was an imsportantRoman station: the general plan of the cityand the arrangement of the prindpal streets—answeringin some measure to a Roman camp—^bear witness to itsTBoman origin: to the Roman geographers it was known.as "Deva,"" or the station on the Dee, where, according tor.the Antonine Itinerary, was the station from A.D. 61 ofthe 2oth Legion (Valeria Victrix), and this seems to be-confirmed by the name " Caer Leon Gawr," or the " cityof the great legion," assigned to it by the British; this-view is further strengthened by the discovery here ofTotive altars and sculptured tombstones, the inscriptionson which show that they were erected by officers andothers belonging to Roman legions, besides which manyand various other Roman remains have been met with atdifferent periods. The 20th Legion quitted Deva aboutA.D, 406 ; and it then reverted to the Britons, from whomit was taken in 607 by Ethelfrith the Fierce, King ofNorthumbria; the Britons, however, regained possession,and continued to hold the place till they were dispossessedin 828-30 by Egbert, who, as sole monarch, added Legancester,as it was caUed by the Saxons, to his otherdominions; in 8g4 it was taken and ravaged by the Danes,and on their retreat, the city walls were rebuilt, aboutgo8, by Ethelfleda, Countess of Mercia; but after herdeath, the Britons once more became its masters, onlyto be again expeUed by Edward the Elder: in the summerof 973, Edgar received on the Dee the homage of variousinferior Saxon sovereigns, and according to some writers,was rowed from his palace on the south bank' of the riverto the conventual church of St. John by eight tributarykings: on the division of the country in 1016 betweenEdmund Ironside and Canute, Chester, as part of Mercia,was retained by the latter. Under the Normans Chesterincreased considerably in importance, and after the Conquest,the Earldom of Chester (county) was conferred onGeorbodus, a nobleman of Flanders, who, however, nevertook possession of his territory, and, returning to theContinent, died soon after, upon which the dignity wasbestowed by the Conqueror, in 1070, upon his halfsister'sson, Hugh de Abrincis (or Avranches), surnamed"Lupus," who had his residence and held his courts andparliaments here, to which he summoned the barons andlandowners of the shire; this powerful and wealthy nobleeventually died as a monk in the abbey of St. Werburgh.at Chester, 27 July, iioi :and on the death in Dec. 1119of his son Richard, 2nd earl, the male Une then becomingextinct, the earldom passed to his ist cousin, Eanulphdo MeschineS; son of Balph de Meschines, who had