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Dunham on the Hill, Cheshire

Historical Description

Dunham-on-the-Hill or Dunham Hill, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Thornton-le-Moors parish, Cheshire, 5¼ miles NE of Chester, with a station on the Birkenhead and L. & N.W. railway, and a post office under Warrington; money order and telegraph office, Helsby. Acreage, 1404; population, 287. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1888. Population, 373. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, £132 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Thornton-in-the-Moor. The church was erected in 1861.

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 parishThornton 
HundredEddisbury 
Poor Law unionGreat Boughton 
Registration districtGreat Boughton1837 - 1869
Registration districtChester1870 - 1937

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Dunham on the Hill from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Dunham on the Hill 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.

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