STAPLEFORD (BRUEN), a township in that part of
the parish of TARVIN which is in the second division of
the hundred of EDDISBURY, county palatine of CHESTER,
4 miles (W. N. W.) from Tarporley, containing 268. inhabitants.
At Hargrave Stubbs, in this township, is a
grammar school, founded by Sir Thomas Moulson, Bart.,
who endowed it with a rent-charge of £20 on certain
lands then given by him for charitable uses, and now let
for £155 per annum. .