VALE-ROYAL, (Cheshire) on the Weever, E. of Delamere-Forest, had an abbey translated hither from Dernhale, and founded by Edw. I. who expended 30,000 l. sterling on it, besides what his Q. Eleanor gave, where dwelt the Holcrofts, and now Cha. Cholmondley, Esq;. All the tract from the r. to the forest is called the Vale-Royal.