In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Farndon like this:
FARNDON, a village, a township, and a parish in Great Boughton district, Cheshire. The village stands on the river Dee, 4 miles ESE of Rossett r. station, and 7½ S of Chester; was known at Domesday as Forendon; is connected, by a ten-arched bridge, with Holt in Wales; and has a post office‡ under Chester, and fairs on 4 April and 4 Oct. ...
The township comprises 1, 025 acres. Real property, £2, 930. Pop., 557. Houses, 102. The parish contains also the townships of Barton, Clutton, Crewe, and Churton-by-Farndon. Acres, 2, 856. Real property, £6, 378. Pop., 992. Houses, 191. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £115. Patron, the Marquis of Westminster. The church was rebuilt on the site of one burnt in 1645; was repaired in 1869; and includes a chapel of the Barnston family, rebuilt in 1869. There are two Primitive Methodist chapels, an endowed school, a national school, a reading room , and charities £15. Major Barnston, who served in the Crimean war, is commemorated by an obelisk; and John Speed, the antiquary, was a native.
Farndon through time
Farndon is now part of Chester district. Click here for graphs and data of how Chester has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Farndon itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Farndon, in Chester and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6159
Date accessed: 28th April 2024
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