Claughton, Cheshire
Historical Description
Claughton-cum-Grange, a township-chapelry in Bidstone and Woodchurch parishes, Cheshire, 1 mile NW, and within the municipal borough of Birkenhead, which is the post town. Population, 5746. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; value, £850. The church is in the Early English style, and was built in 1854. St Mark's Church was erected in 1891.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Claughton 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.