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Survey of English Place-Names

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Little Budworth Chapelry

Parish in the County of Cheshire

Etymology

Little Budworth was a free chapelry in Over parish, in the patronage of the Nuns of Chester until the dissolution, and thereafter a parochial chapelry of Over parish until the nineteenth century (Orm2 iii211). It is now a c.p. including Oulton Lowe 165supra .

Major Settlements