THELWALL, a chapelry in the parish of RUNCORN,
hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER,
3 miles (E. S. E.) from Warrington, containing 327
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400
private benefaction, £ 1000 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of T. A. Pickering,
Esq. The chapel has lately received an addition of
two hundred and forty sittings, of which one hundred
and twenty are free, the Incorporated Society for the
enlargement of churches and chapels having granted
£120 towards defraying the expense. The Duke of
Bridgewater's canal passes through the parish, and the
river Mersey forms its northern boundary, on the south
bank of which river are some gunpowder mills. Thelwall
was formerly a considerable town, though now but
an obscure village.