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| St. John the Evangelist at Byley | Foundation Plaque |
Byley is a pleasant little hamlet with a brick built church of 1846 and a modern village hall. During the Second World War there was a an aerodrome. There are current plans to build an underground North Sea gas storage facility for Scottish Power in the thick salt deposit beneath the site of the former aerodrome. These are being vigourously opposed by the residents of Byley and surrounding villages. The chapel is not ancient enough to feature in Raymond Richard's book on Old Cheshire Churches. Pevnser notes that it was a Commisioners' church, built with money provided by the government for church building after the Napoleonic Wars. The Incorporated Church Buildiing Society gives the architect as J. Matthews but there is another view that the church was designed by the Rev. Henry Massey, vicar of Goosetrey. The first stone was laid by the Rev. Isaac Wood, vicar of Middlewich, on July 29 1846
