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 the parish of Great Budworth, and hundred of Eddisbury; its population is 863, and the An. As. Val. 23,245.

From this station Tarporley is 8 miles, and Chester 16 to the westward; Northwich 2, and Knutsford 9 to the eastward. ( continued page 52.)

NORTHWICH is a market-town, township, and chapelry, in the parish of Great Budworth, situated on the river Weaver, near its confluence with the Dane, and has a population of 1,481; An. As. Val. £1,952; it is 17½ miles E.N.E, from Chester. It derives its name from its relative position to other wiches or Salt-towns. It was called by the Britons Hel-lath-du, or the Black Salt Town. The market is held on Friday, and the fairs on April 10 for cattle; August 2. December 6, for cattle, drapery goods, and bedding.

The living is a curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester (not in charge); patron, the vicar of Great Budworth. It has a well-endowed free grammar-school, and chapels for Independents and Methodists. The inhabitants are principally occupied in the manufacture of cotton, and in the salt trade; as much as 240,000 tons of salt have been sent to Liverpool in one year. Salt is here manufactured both from the rock and the brine springs; these latter are from 60 to 100 feet in depth, and the water is so impregnated with saline particles, as to be fit for evaporation as soon as it is raised by the