Millbrook, Cheshire
Historical Description
Millbrook, an ecclesiastical parish in Mottram-in-Longdendale parish, Cheshire, within the borough of Staleybridge and Mossley. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Staleybridge. It was constituted in 1863. Population, 4113. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £300 with residence. The church was erected in 1863, and a chapel of ease in 1894.
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 Millbrook 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.