End date given as 1750 here to cover entries in visitations, but all eighteenth-century entries seem formulaic, and in 1733 described as ruined. Gastrell c. 1720 noted, 'Demolished above 30 years agoe'. Gastrell's nineteenth-century editor noted that, 'Moreton is situtated at a short distance from Bidston, in a dreary flat, on the verge of the shore', Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, I, 156.