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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Civil parish | Bunbury | |
Hundred | Eddisbury | |
Poor Law union | Nantwich | |
Registration district | Chester | 1892 - 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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
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.