Norley, Cheshire
Historical Description
Norley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Frodsham parish, Cheshire. The village stands near Delamere Forest, 3 miles WSW of Acton Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4½ SE of Frodsham, is a scattered place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Warrington. A temperance hall was built in 1874, and a Foresters' hall in 1888. The township comprises 1411 acres; population, 689. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1861; population, 694. Norley House and Norley Hall are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £155 with residence. The church was built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1879. There are Wesleyan, Free, and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Civil parish | Frodsham | |
Hundred | Eddisbury | |
Poor Law union | Runcorn |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Norley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Norley 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.