New Brighton, Cheshire
Historical Description
Brighton, New, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Wallasey civil parish, Cheshire. The village stands within Liscard township, on the Irish Sea, at the mouth of the Mersey, near the lighthouse, 5 miles N by W of Birkenhead. It enjoys a salubrious climate, commands fine bathing grounds, and is much frequented as a summer watering-place. It has a post office under Liverpool, a station at the terminus of a branch of the Wirral railway, a convalescent home, a lifeboat station, a church, two mission churches, and Roman Catholic and Wesleyan chapels. The ecclesiastical parish includes the village, and was constituted in 1861. Population, 7574. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £420 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church was built in 1856, and is in the Early English style, with a tower and spire.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Civil parish | Wallasey |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for New Brighton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brighton, New)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of New Brighton 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.