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- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Moore is a village and civil parish located since 2009 in the Borough of Halton in Cheshire, England. It had a population of 807 according to the UK census of 2001.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Moore from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "MOORE, or MOOR, a village and a township in Runcorn parish, Cheshire. The village stands adjacent to the Northwestern railway and the Bridgewater canal, 1 mile SE of the Mersey and Irwell cana1, 1½ SE of the Mersey river, and 3¼ SW of Warrington; is a neat place; and has a station on the railway, and a postal letter-box under Warrington. The township comprises 901 acres. Real property: £2,267. Population in 1851: 336; in 1861: 269. Houses: 56. The manor, with Moore Hall, belongs to the Rev. G. Heron. There is a Wesleyan chapel."
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