ASTON-by-BUDWORTH, a chapelry in that part
of the parish of GREAT-BUDWORTH which is in the
hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, 4
miles (N. N. B.) from Northwich, containing 380 inhabitants.
The village is situated at the distance of about
a mile from the main road between London and Liverpool,
and the same distance from the Trent and Mersey
canal. In the centre of the township are the remains
of an ancient moated mansion, with an old bridge, and
a petrifying spring rises at a place called Gore Farm. A
court leet is held annually by the lord of the manor.