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Willington - From 'A Topographical Dictionary of Wales' (1849)
WILLINGTON, a township, in the parish of Hanmer, poor-law union of Ellesmere, hundred of Maelor, county of Flint, North Wales, 8 miles (N. N. E.) from Ellesmere; containing 375 inhabitants. It is situated on the high road from Whitchurch to Wrexham, and contains some respectable residences, among which is Willington Hall. The tithes have been commuted for £285. 2., of which a sum of £238. 16. is payable to the impropriators, and one of £46. 6. to the vicar of Hanmer, who has also a glebe here of two acres, valued at £3 per annum.

Worthenbury - From 'A Topographical Dictionary of Wales' (1849)
WORTHENBURY, a parish, in the union of Wrexham, hundred of Maelor, county of Flint, North Wales, 7 miles (E. S. E.) from Wrexham; containing 620 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the banks of the river Dee, and on the road from Wrexham to Malpas in the county of Chester. It is entirely agricultural, and principally divided between the proprietors of the estates of Emral and Broughton, which constitute nearly the whole of the parish. The soil of the higher lands is in general good loamy clay, producing superior crops of wheat, and rich pasturage; that in the lower, which is subject to partial floods from the river and some tributary brooks, consists of alluvial earth. The river Dee forms the boundary of part of the parish on the north-west, where it also separates the counties of Denbigh and Flint. Emral is at present the seat of Sir Richard Puleston, Bart., whose ancestors, originally of Norman descent, have resided here in uninterrupted succession since the reign of Edward I. The first of the family who settled at this place was Sir Roger de Puleston, a great favourite of that monarch, who, after his conquest of Wales, appointed Puleston collector of the taxes which he had imposed on the Welsh, for carrying on the war against France, and also made him sheriff and keeper of the county of Anglesey for life. The Welsh, exasperated by the levying of taxes which they had not previously been accustomed to pay, seized Sir Roger, at Carnarvon, and hanged him on the spot. Edward, incensed at the violence committed on his lieutenant, severely punished the insurgents, and also chose Roger's son, Richard de Puleston, sheriff of the county; and in the second parliament to which the shire and the borough, after the incorporation of the latter, returned members, the former elected John and the latter Robert de Puleston for their representatives, as if to atone to the descendants for the outrage committed upon their ancestor. In recent times, in 1806, Sir Richard, the late proprietor of Emral, had the honour of introducing into Wales his Majesty George IV., when Prince; in commemoration of which event his Royal Highness signified his approbation that Sir Richard, as a testimony of his esteem, should bear as a crest an oak-tree, with an escutcheon pendant therefrom, charged with three ostrich feathers within a coronet. Sir Richard Puleston died in May 1840, and was succeeded by his son, the present baronet. Broughton is also a spacious mansion, to which are attached extensive grounds, and is likewise an ancient family residence.

This parish was formerly a chapelry to BangorIscoed, from which it was severed under the provisions of an act of parliament for uniting and dividing parishes, in the year 1658: the living was, however, taken possession of by Dr. Bridgeman, rector of Bangor, in 1661; but was ultimately again separated, and Worthenbury made a distinct parish, by an act obtained in the 2nd of William and Mary. The living is a rectory, rated in the king's books at £19. 13. 4.; patron, Sir Richard Puleston. The tithes, which have been commuted for a rent-charge of £400, formerly belonged to the family of Puleston, subject to a small payment to the incumbent of Bangor. Judge Puleston, being desirous of establishing a resident minister here, erected a good house near the church, in 1657, and endowed the living with £100 per annum, upon condition that his chaplain, Philip Henry, who had entered his family as tutor in 1653, would undertake the cure of souls. This offer being accepted, Mr. Henry resided in the house, and performed the duties of the incumbency till 1661; he was then suspended from his charge for non-conformity, and in the following year quitted the parish. During the insurrection of the inhabitants of the county of Chester, in 1659, some of Lambert's forces came to this church, to attend the ministry of that celebrated preacher. The church, dedicated to St. Deiniol, is a handsome modern edifice of brick, with a lofty tower ornamented on the summit with urns and crosses alternately. A day school in connexion with the Established Church is held here.

Thomas Puleston, Esq., in 1734, bequeathed £150 for building a school-house in the churchyard for the gratuitous instruction of poor children, and for six small houses to be let rent-free to decayed tenants on the Emral estate; but this charity was never carried into effect. From the benefaction-table it appears that a sum of £46 was left by several unknown donors to the poor, which was in the hands of the Rev. Dr. Puleston; and the equivalent is supposed to be a distribution of six twopenny loaves of bread on Sunday, in the church, to as many old persons, at the charge of Sir Richard Puleston. Sir John Puleston, of Emral, was chamberlain of North Wales in 1554; and John Puleston, one of the judges of the Common Pleas, was born at Emral.