SHOTWICK, a parish in the higher division of the
hundred of WIRRALL, county palatine of CHESTER, comprising
the townships of Cappenhurst, Kingswood,
Great Saughall, Little Saughall, Shotwick, and Woodbank,
otherwise Rough Shotwick, and containing 719
inhabitants, of which number, 94 are in the township of
Shotwick, 6 miles (N.W.) from Chester. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Chester, endowed with £18 per annum, and £240 private
benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and
Chapter of Chester. The church, dedicated to St.
Michael, has a curious Norman door, and some portions
in the later style of English architecture.