Thelwall, Cheshire

Historical Description

Thelwall, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Runcorn parish, Cheshire, on the river Mersey, the Bridgwater Canal, and the Manchester Ship Canal, 3 miles E by S of Warrington Thelwall is one of the oldest places in England, and was a royal city founded by Edward the Elder in 920. It has a station on the Warrington and Stockport section of the L. & N.W.R., and a post and money order office under Warrington; telegraph office, Grappenhall. The township comprises 1258 acres; population, 770. At the census the population was considerably increased temporarily by a colony of navvies at work in connection with the Manchester Ship Canal. The usual population is about 500 Greenfield, Massey Hall, Highfields, the Grange, and Thelwall Hall are chief residences. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1870. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; net value, £120 with residence. The church, in the Early English style, is dedicated to All Saints. The nave was built in 1843 and the chancel in 1857 in place of an old manorial chapel built in the time of Elizabeth. The N aisle, vestry, and porch were added in 1890-91.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Thelwall from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Thelwall 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:

• Chester Chronicle
• Cheshire Observer
• Chester Courant

Visitations Heraldic

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