Barthomley, a village and a township in Cheshire, and a parish partly in Cheshire and partly in Staffordshire. The township is 1 mile S by W of Radway-Green station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 5 miles SE of Crewe, under which it has a post office; money order office, Betley; telegraph office, Alsager. Acreage, 1961; population of the civil parish, 315; of the ecclesiastical, 2500. The parish includes also the townships of Crewe, Haslington, and Alsager in Cheshire, and the township of Balterley in Staffordshire. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £620 with residence. Patrons, the trustees of the late Lord Crewe. The church is an ancient edifice, with Norman porch and richly carved roof, the latter put up in 1589. It contains a monument of 1390 to Sir Robert Fulshurst, who fought at the battle of Poitiers; one of 1829 to the first Lord Crewe ; and one of 1887, by Boehm, to the wife of the second Lord Houghton. It was the scene of a tragical onslaught, in 1643, by a troop of Lord Byron.
