Norbury (Stockport), Cheshire

Historical Description

Norbury, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Stockport parish, Cheshire. The village stands near an affluent of the river Mersey, 1 mile SE of Hazlegrove station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3 miles SE of Stockport. The township contains also part of the village of Hazlegrove, which has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stockport. Acreage, 1249; population, 1495. Coal is largely worked. The ecclesiastical parish includes also part of the parish of Cheadle, and was constituted in 1842. Population, 5246. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, £170 with residence. The church was built in 1834; is in the Pointed style; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with a low tower; and has a stained E window.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Norbury (Stockport) from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Norbury)

Land and Property

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

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cheshire papers online:

• Chester Chronicle
• Cheshire Observer
• Chester Courant

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.