FADDILEY is a township, 3 ½ miles west from Acton and 4 ½ west from Nantwich. Woodhey chapel, built and endowed with £25 yearly by Lady Wilbraham about 1700, is a small edifice of brick with stone dressings.

The living is a perpetual curacy, gross yearly value £20, in the gift of Lord Tollemache, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Jermyn Shephard Hirst B.A. of Queen’s College, Cambridge, and rector of Baddiley, where he resides. The site of Woodhey Hall, for several centuries the residence of a branch of the Wilbraham family, is now occupied by a farmhouse. Lord Tollemache is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The area is 1,217 acres; rateable value £2,148; the population in 1891 was 217.