CHORLTON, a township in the parish of MALPAS,
higher division of the hundred of BROXTON, county
palatine of CHESTER, 2 miles (W. by N.) from Malpas,
containing 124 inhabitants. A quantity of Roman
coins, of the reigns of the emperors Valerian and
Posthumus, was t dug up, in March 1818, by some workmen,
in a field in this township.