WYBUNBURY, a parish in the hundred of NANTWICH,
county palatine of CHESTER, comprising the
townships of Bartherton, Basford, Blalcenhall, Bridgemere,
Checkley with Wrinehill, Chorlton, Doddington,
Hatherton, Hough, Hunsterson, Lea, Rope, Shavington
with Gresty, Sound, Stapeley, Walgherton, Weston,
Willaston, and Wybunbury, and containing 4146 inhabitants,
of which number, 429 are in the township of
Wybunbury, 3 miles (E. S. E.) from Nantwich. The
living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Chester,rated in the king's books at .£13. 12. 1., and
in the patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.
The church, dedicated to St. Chad, was rebuilt in
1595; it is a spacious structure, with carved wooden
ceilings and a lofty pinnacled tower, which leans a
little to the north-east. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. A school, founded by the
late Sir Thomas Delves, Bart., is conducted on the
National system, and attended by one hundred and
thirty-four boys, of whom twenty receive annually a
blue coat and cap each: the same individual endowed
a school for ten girls, each of whom have a blue gown
and bonnet annually; also four others in different
parts of the parish, which afford instruction to sixtysix
girls. There is, besides, a boys' school, called the
Wybunbury Charity, built by subscription about two
hundred years ago, and endowed by several persons
for the instruction of twenty boys. An hospital,
dedicated to the Holy Cross and St. George, for a
master and brethren, existed here before 1464.