GRAPPENHALL, a parish in the hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, comprising the chapelry of Latchford, and the township of Grappenhall, and containing 1652 inhabitants, of which number, 400 are in the township of Grappenhall, 2 miles (S.B.) from Warrington. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £6. 11. io|. The Rev. J. B. Stewart was patron in 1808. The church, dedicated to St. Wilfrid, was erected ia 1539. The Duke of Bridgewater's canai passes through the parish, which is bounded on the north by the river Mersey. There is a cotton manufactory at Latchford. Courts leet and baron are annually held here. A school-house, built at the expense of the parishioners in 1712, is endowed with lands given by Mr. Thomas Johnson.