WARMINGHAM, a township in Nantwich district, and a parish partly also in Congleton district, Cheshire. The township lies 1¾ mile W of Sandbach r. station, and has a post-office under Sandbach. Acres, 2,028. Real property, £3,228. Pop., 358. Houses, 71.—The parish contains three other townships, and comprises 4,730 acres. Pop., 1,205. Houses, 238. The property is divided among a few. There are brass and iron foundries, an agricultural-implement manufactory, extensive bone-works, and extensive brick and tile yards. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £650.* Patron, Lord Crewe. The church was rebuilt in 1797. There are two Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school with £21 a year, and charities £10.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))