WITHINGTON (LOWER), a township in the parish
of PRESTBURY, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine
of CHESTER, 7 miles (N.N.W.) from Congleton,
containing 615 inhabitants. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. Tunsted, a hill in this
township, is supposed, from its Saxon etymology, viz.,
the place of a town, to have been the site of an ancient
yille of some consequence. A school is supported here,
by Mr. Parker, for the instruction of poor
children.