Alvanley, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire, near Delamere Forest, 1 1/2 mile S of Helsby station on the L. & N.W. and Birkenhead railways, and 3 miles SSW of Frodsham, with a post office under Warrington; money order and telegraph office, Helsby. Acreage, 1513; population, 328. The manor belonged for many generations to the Arderne or Arden family, and gave them the title of Baron. The title became extinct in 1857. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, £141 with gift from the Patron, the Earl of Haddington, of £105. The church was built in 1860 near the site of a chapel erected in the reign of Henry VI.
