Tarvin, Cheshire
Historical Description
Tarvin, a village, a township, a parish, and the head of a poor law union in Cheshire. The village stands 2 miles ESE of Barrow station on the Cheshire Lines railway, 4½ NW of Tarporley, and 5½ E of Chester; was once a market town; and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chester. The public hall, erected in 1889, contains a large room, used for concerts, &c. The township includes Oscroft hamlet, and comprises 2044 acres; population, 1193. The parish contains also the townships of Bruen Stapleford, Barton, Clotton Hoofield, Daddon, Hockenhull, and Kelsall. Acreage, 6943; population of the civil parish, 2655; of the ecclesiastical, with Pryors Hayes (formerly extra-parochial), 2680. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £142 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church is Decorated and Perpendicular, and was restored in 1876 and 1892. It consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, the Bruen chapel, and a fine tower. The chancel has good oak carving and a brass of 1584 to Henry Hardware, twice mayor of Chester. There are chapels of ease at Duddon and Kelsall, and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Cheshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Tarvin St. Andrew | |
| Hundred | Broxton | |
| Poor Law union | Great Boughton | |
| Registration district | Great Boughton | 1837 - 1869 |
| Registration district | Chester | 1870 - 1937 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Tarvin from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tarvin (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Tarvin 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.