Barnston, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Woodchurch parish, Cheshire, 2 miles N of Heswall station on the Birkenhead railway, 4 N of Great Neston, and 6 SW by S of Birkenhead, under which there is a post office; money order and telegraph office, Heswall. Acreage, 1108 ; population of the civil parish, 404; of the ecclesiastical parish, which includes the township of Pensley, 455. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £143 with residence. Christ Church was erected in 1870.
