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Beeston, Cheshire

Historical Description

Beeston, a township in Bunbury parish, Cheshire. 2 miles S of Tarporley, 2 WNW of Bunbury, and 10½ SE by E of Chester. It lias a station (Beeston Castle and Tarporley) on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Tarporley. Acreage, 1965; population, 302. Beeston Castle, — mile from the station, crowns an isolated sandstone rock, 366 feet high, and commands a charming view of Chester, the estuaries of the Dee and Mersey on the N, and the mountains of Denbighshire on the W. The castle was built as a fortress in 1228 by Ranulph de Blundeville, sixth Earl of Chester, was dismantled in 1645 by order of Parliament, and is now an extensive and picturesque ruin.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyCheshire 
Civil parishBunbury 
HundredEddisbury 
Poor Law unionNantwich 
Registration districtChester1892 - 1937

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Beeston from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Beeston are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cheshire papers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.

CountyCheshire West and Chester
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtCW6
Post TownTarporley

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