STANLOW-HOUSE, a liberty (extra-parochial), in
the higher division of the hundred of WIRRALL, county
palatine of CHESTER, 8 miles (N. by B.) from Chester,
containing 16 inhabitants. An abbey of Cistercian
monks was founded here, in 1178, by John Lacy, constable
of Chester, which, on account of- the inundations
of the Mersey in 1296, was removed to Whalley in
Lancashire, a cell being left at this place; some small
remains of the conventual buildings are visible in a
farm-house.