DARESBURY, a chapelry in the parish of RUNCORN,
hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER,
5 miles (N.E.) from Frodsham, containing 146 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £1000
private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £900 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and
Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The chapel is dedicated
to All Saints. A school, founded by subscription
in the reign of Elizabeth, is endowed with the
interest of £185, the amount of various benefactions.