After preaching farewell sermons at his churches of Wrenbury and Acton, he was on 3 October 1662 suspended from the vicarage of Acton, and on the 28 October his successor Kirks was appointed.
The first of three canal crossings occurs just before the village of Wrenbury, when the Llangollen Canal crosses its course.
Its benefice is combined with those of St Michael, Baddiley, and St Margaret, Wrenbury.
The Very Reverend Alan Brunskill Webster (1918–2007), author and Dean of the cathedrals of Norwich and St Paul's, was born in Wrenbury.
His first living was at Wrenbury in Cheshire, from which he was expelled in 1648 for refusing to take the engagement.