Places: Bechin

Place Type

Settlement

County

Cheshire

Parish

Coddington

Deanery

Malpas

Causes

EDC 5/1566/12 – Hugh Dodd, rector of Coddington, contra Richard Allen of Farndon regarding the tithes of Bechin

BECHIN

Bechin was a hamlet lying adjacent to the township of Coddington.

The tithes of this hamlet belonged to the parish of Coddington, except for a part which paid a composition to Malpas. This arrangement was the subject of a cause in the consistory court in 1566.

Source

George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, vol. 2, p. 735 (second edition, revised and enlarged by T. Helsby, London, 1882)