Timperley, Cheshire
Historical Description
Timperley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Cheshire. The township stands 1 mile W of Timperley station on the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincham railway, and 1½ ENE of Altrincham. It contains a small village and numerous villas, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Altrincham. Acreage, 1638; population of township, 2461; of the ecclesiastical parish, 3128. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. Timperley Lodge, Timperley Hall, and Pickering Lodge are chief residences. Market gardening is largely carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £330 with residence. The church was built in 1849, and enlarged in 1865. 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 | Bowdon | |
Hundred | Bucklow | |
Poor Law union | Altrincham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Timperley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Timperley)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Timperley 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.