| Lostock Gralam : 1850 & 1892 |
| 1850-Lostock Gralam is a township and considerable village, 2 miles NNE from Northwich, on the road from that town to Knutsford. The township contains 1,706A. 3r. 22p. of land, and, in 1841, had 102 houses and 574 inhabitants; population in 1801: 361; in 1831:537. Rateable value, £2642. 5s. The township is intersected by the North Staffordshire Canal, which has a wharf here, usually called the Wincham Wharf. The manor in former times belonged to Hame, who was slain at the battle of Nantwich. On the advance of Hugh Lupus to take possession of his new earldom, Hugh de Runchamp had a grant of it from the earl, and Gralam, his son, assumed the local name. It descended from the Lostocks to the Holfords, and from them with the Holford Hall estate, in Plumley, to Peter Langford Brooks, Esq., of Mere, and is now possessed by Thomas John Langford Brookes, Esq., besides whom Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., and Lee Porcher Townshend, Esq., Mrs Forrest, Wm. Barker, Esq., Mr Josiah Taylor, Mr Richard Taylor, are proprietors. The church, dedicated to St. John, is a small brick fabric, consisting of nave and north and south transepts. It was built in 1845 by subscriptions, towards which the Rev. Richard Greenall was a munificent contributor. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £400 and a grant of £50 per annum by the ecclesiastical commissioners. The patronage is vested in the incumbent at Witton; the Rev. George Bewsher is the present minister. A neat parsonage house has been built a little south east from the church. The district of this church embraces Lostock Gralam, Wincham, Hulse, and Lach Dennis. The rectorial tithes are commuted for £105. 15s. 6d., and the vicarial tithes for £24. A school room was built in 1809 by subscriptions. The Methodists and Association Methodists have each a chapel in the township. Lostock Green consists of a number of farms and cottages, about 1 mile south from the church, and about the same distance from Moss Lane, where there are several farms. Near to Lostock Green, a building called the Old Castle was pulled down about 50 years ago, contiguous to which was a burial ground; but the gravestones have all been removed, and the site ploughed over. The last interment took place about 70 years ago. Mr Thomas Clough, who died in 1846, and Mary, his wife, who died in 1843, were both buried in the orchard at the back of their residence, at Lostock Green. Rev. Geo. Bewsher, Parsonage; Timber Merchants: John & Thos. Clough Tanners: Mrs Catherine Forrest; John Occleston Wheelwrights: Miss Elizabeth Taylor; John Tunnicliff Academies: Ann Clough; William Whiston. Blacksmiths: David Harker (and agricultural implement maker); Thomas Orme. Boot & Shoe makers: Edwin Hewitt; Joseph Hewitt: Peter Royle; Peter Stubbs. Coal & Slate Merchants: (Thus* at Wincham Wharf) William Appleton; *John Kinsey; *Hugh Pownall & Graisty Starkey (iron & slate only); *Robert Wrench (corn & lime merchant). Farmers: Robert Gray Brewster; John Clough; Mark Cross; Thomas Forster; James Edgerley; James Glassford; John Glave; Samuel Goodier; Thomas Hindley; Thomas Kinsey; William Kinsey; John Platt; John Ravenscroft; Mary Sanders; Josiah Taylor; George Warburton (and Butcher); Peter Whittaker; George Wood; Joseph Wood; Thomas Wyatt. Inns & Taverns: Black Greyhound (Rich. Hill); Slow & Easy (James Crowder (and Post Office)). Sadlers & Harness Makers: Peter Mann; Charles Moreton. Shopkeepers: Thomas Ball; Ann Clough; George Cooke; Peter Stubbs. |
| 1892-Lostock Gralam is a township, village and parish, formed in 1844 from the mother parish of Great Budworth. The village, situated on the high road from Northwich to Knutsford, has a station on the Chester, Northwich and Altrincham section of the Cheshire Lines Committee's railway, 2 1/2 miles north-east-by-east from the former and 5 south-west from the latter place, in the Knutsford division of the county, Northwich hundred, union and county court district; petty sessional division of Leftwich; Frodsham rural deanery, and archdeaconry and diocese of Chester. The parish embraces the townships of Lostock Gralam, the eastern part of Wincham, Hulse, Lach Dennis and Birches. The township is intersected by the North Staffordshire canal. The register at the church of Saint John the Evangelist dates from 1844. Here are a Tan Yard and two Bone Mills. In the famous Scrope and Grosvenor controversy of 1386, relative to the arms claimed by both those families, the manor of Lostock was stated to have been anciently held by one "Hame", afterwards slain at Nantwich. The vill of Lostock was divided by Hugh de Abrincis, surnamed "Lupus", 1st Earl of Chester (1070), Over Lostock being given to Robert Grosvenor, and Nether Lostock to Hugh de Runchamp, whose grandson Gralam assumed the name of "de Lostock", and his descendants of this name held the property here till about 9 Edward II, (1315-16) when it was alienated to the Vernons. In 10 Edward III (1336-7), it was held by Sir Thomas Danyel or Danniers, and subsequently by the Holfords, and later the manor, together with the Holford Hall estate in Plumley, came into the possession of Peter Langford Brooke esq. of Mere (d.1840) and thence descended to his great nephew, Thomas William Langford Brooke esq. of Mere (d. 16th Sept. 1872), whose mother, the Hon. Mrs GD Keane, of Mere Hall, Knutsford, is now lady of the manor, and Mr John Taylor and Messrs. JK and W Hesketh are the chief landowners. The soil is mixed; subsoil chiefly clay. The chief crops are hay, potatoes, turnips, wheat and oats. The area of the parish is 3,505 acres; the township contains 1,706 acres, chiefly applied to dairy purposes; rateable value, £6,064. The population in 1891 was 896. Private Residents:- Miss Buckley, Reginald Bullworthy, William Cloudsdale, Rev. William Charles Delaney, MA (vicar), Arthur Firth, James Kinsey Hesketh, William Hesketh, William Dodson Hesketh (Highfield House), Miss Kinsey, Thomas Kinsey (Highfield Cottage), Mrs Moss, Mrs Pascall, Mrs Peck, Thomas Reed, William Sutherland, William Walton. Commercial:- Grocers: Thomas Barrow, James Beach, Mrs Emma Parks. Shopkeepers: Mrs Sarah Bell, Mrs Martha Brown, Miss Sarah Clough, Arthur Fox, Mrs Ann Kendrick. Publicans: James Baxter 'Slow & Easy', John Buckley 'Black Greyhound'. Farmers: James Beswick (and cattle dealer), Samuel Clarke, John Corns, Samuel Harrop, Thomas Hodgkinson, Mrs Jane Hughes, John Kinsey, Thomas Kennerley, John Kinsey, Robert Newall, James Platt, Thomas Platt, Mrs Emma Ravenscroft (and cheese factor), Samuel Snelson, Peter Stubbs, John Taylor (and landowner), Henry Warburton (& cattle dealer, Bank Top), Mrs Elizabeth Wood. Chemical and Alkali Manufacturers: Thompson, Bowman & Co., Davis Bros. Coal Dealer: William Burgess. Blacksmith: Mrs Mary Clarke. Butcher: William Corker. Dairyman: James Hailwood. Corn & Bone Merchants: James Kinsey & William Hesketh. Shoemakers: John Hewitt, John Holland. Saddler & Harness Maker: Thomas Moreton. Tanner: John Occlestone. Agricultural Machine Agent: Samuel Shuker. Tailor: John Webster. |
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| 1914 Directory: Lostock Gralam & Green, Lach Dennis, Hulse, Birches, Newhall |
| 1851 Census: Lostock Gralam |
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