Thornton Hough, Cheshire
Historical Description
Thornton Hough or Thornton Mayow, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Great Neston and Bromborough parishes, Cheshire, 3 miles W by S of Bromborough station on the Birkenhead railway, and 2½ NNE of Great Neston, with a post and money order office under Chester; telegraph office, Great Neston. The township comprises 1535 acres; population, 487. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1869, and includes the townships of Raby and Brimstage. Population, 1069. There are several good residences of Liverpool merchants. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, .6285 with residence. The church was built in 1868. There is a Wesleyan 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 | Neston | |
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 Thornton Hough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thornton-Mayow)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Thornton Hough 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.