CAPENHURST is a township and village, in 1859 formed into a parish from the civil parishes of Neston and Shotwick, and comprises the townships of Capenhurst and Ledsham, in the Wirral division of the county, hundred of Wirral, petty sessional division of Chester Castle, Chester union and county court district, rural deanery of Wirral, archdeaconry and diocese of Chester. The village has a station on the London and North Western and Great Western joint railway, and is 6 miles north-north-west from Chester and 11 south-west from Birkenhead. The church of Holy Trinity, erected and endowed in 1859 by the late Rev. Richard Richardson M.A. of Capenhurst Hall, is an edifice of red sandstone in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch, and a western tower, with shingled spire, containing 4 bells: the tower, the base of which forms a baptistery, was built in 1890, in memory of the founder, by his family; the stained east window was erected by him in 1876 in memory of Fanny, his wife: there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1859. The living was declared a rectory July 31st, 1868, average tithe rent-charge £127, net yearly value £160, with residence, in the gift of Richard Taswell Richardson esq. and held since 1891 by the Rev. Francis Reyner Brooksbank Pinhorn M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. Capenhurst Hall, the seat of Richard Taswell Richardson esq. B.A., J.P. lord of the manor and chief landowner, is a mansion of red brick close to the station and the church. The soil is clay; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are oats. The acreage of the township is 1,190 of land and 14 of water; rateable value £4,019; the population in 1891 of the township was 158 and of the ecclesiastical parish, 241.

Church of England school, built in 1892 for 80 children; average attendance, 32.