Monument record 19/0 - Ince Village

Recorded in Domesday as part of the property of the Abbey of St. Werburgh in Chester to which the manor would belong to the Dissolution.It had 3 hides & 5 ploughs. Up to the 13th century the manor may have been leased but the church, rectory & mills all came under the direct control of the abbey. The spectacular grange where Edward 1 was entertained in 1277 has its earliest visible remains from c.1300. After 1547 manor & village passed through various hands, the Cottons, Cholmondeleys & Wynnes included. In the early C19, the manor was bought by Robert Peel & Edward Yates in the hope of developing the existing Mersey Ferry as a commercial venture. The buildings around the Square & 2 lodges are their work(1).

<1> Thompson, P, 1983, Ince Manor: Medieval Monastic Buildings on the Mersey Marshes (Monograph). SCH1474.

<2> Slater F G, 1919, A Cheshire Parish: Being a Short History of Ince (Book). SCH59.