COGSHALL, a township in that part of the parish
of GREAT-BUDWORTH which is in the hundred of
BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, 3 miles
(N.N.W.) from Northwich, containing 110 inhabitants.
This place consists of only two farms. Tradition says
that on a steep sandy eminence, called Butter hill, the
market people from the hundred of Wirrall deposited
their butter and other produce when the plague excluded
them from the market-place at Chester.