LATCHFORD, a chapelry in the parish of GRAPPENHALL,
hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of
CHESTER, 1 mile (S.E.) from Warrington, containing
1252 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with
£400 private benefaction, £1000 royal bounty, and
£ 1400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Rector of Grappenhall. The church, dedicated to St.
James, has lately received an addition of seven hundred
and eighty-seven sittings, of which four hundred are free,
the Incorporated Soqjety for the enlargement of churches
and chapels having contributed £400 towards defraying
the expense. The Duke of Bridgewater's, the Mersey,
and the Irwell, canals pass through this parish. A cotton
manufactory has been recently established here.
Latchford had anciently two weekly markets and two
annual fairs, granted in the fourteenth century.