New Ferry, Cheshire
Historical Description
New Ferry, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in the parish of Lower Bebington, Cheshire, on the river Mersey, nearly opposite Liverpool, with a station (Bebington) on the Birkenhead railway, 2 miles S of Birkenhead. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Birkenhead, and an iron pier from which steamboats ply to a'nd from Liverpool. There are Conservative and Liberal clubs. The training ship Conwas/, for officers of the mercantile marine, training ship Indefatigable for the sons and orphans of sailors, and two reformatory training ships are moored in the Mersey opposite New Ferry. Extensive soapworks are at Port Sunlight. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1888; population, 3874. For parish council purposes it forms one of the wards of the urban district council of Lower Bebington, and returns nine members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £84 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Bebington. The church was erected in 1867, and is a handsome edifice in the Early English style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of New Ferry 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.