DODDINGTON, a township in the parish of WYBUNBURY,
hundred of NANTWICH, county palatine of
CHESTER, 5 miles (S. E.) from Nantwich, containing
39 inhabitants. There is a mutilated tower; which
formed part of Doddington castle, erected by Sir John
Delves in 1364, where are preserved statues of Lord
Audley and his four squires who fought under the Black
Prince at Poictiers;, near it stood the old hall, which
was made a parliamentary garrison in the civil war,
taken for the king by Lord Byron, in January 1644, and
retaken for the parliament shortly after. Sir Thomas
Delves, who died in 1727, gave by deed £1535 for the
purchase of land, the income derived from which is
applied for the support of schools at Doddington and
Weston, in which twenty boys and ten girls of the
parish of Wybunbury are clothed and educated.