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Burton in Cheshire County England History and GeographyBURTON, a parish in the higher division of the hundred of WIRRALL, county palatine of CHESTER, 2½ miles (S.E. by S.) from Great Neston, containing, with the township of Puddington, 481 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £600 royal bounty. R. Congreve, Esq. was patron in 1814. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, was rebuilt in 1721. At Denwall, in this parish, there is a colliery which was opened about 1750, that extends a mile and three quarters from high water mark under the river Dee: the coal is chiefly sent to Ireland. At the same place was anciently an hospital, to which Alexander de Savensby, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (to which see the manor belonged) appropriated, in 1238, the tithes of Burton. Henry VII., about 1494, gave this hospital, together with all its revenue, including the rectory of this parish, to the hospital of St. John the Baptist, founded at Lichfield by Bishop Smith, to which the estate still belongs. A free school for poor children of the township of Burton, and for four of that of Puddington, was founded in 1724, by Dr. Wilson, the pious and benevolent bishop of Sodor and Man, who was born here on the 20th of December, 1663: he gave £400 for erecting and endowing it, and his son, Dr. Thomas Wilson, rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, and a prebendary in the collegiate church of Westminster, added £200. A market, granted in 1298 to Bishop Langton, was formerly held on Thursday, together with a fair for three days at the festival of St. James. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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