Puddington, Cheshire
Historical Description
Puddington, a village and a township in Burton parish, Cheshire. The village stands near the Dee, 3 miles SW of Ledsham station on the Birkenhead railway, and 7½ NW of Chester, and has a post office under Chester; money order and telegraph office, Neston. The township comprises 1391 acres; population, 150. The property belonged to the baronet family of Errington, the last of the name dying in 1893. Puddiugton Old Hall is now partly a farmhouse, partly the Roman Catholic presbytery. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.
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 | Burton | |
| Hundred | Wirrall | |
| Poor Law union | Wirrall |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Puddington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Puddington)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Puddington 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.