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Toft, Cheshire

Historical Description

Toft, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Knutsford parish, Cheshire. The township lies 2 miles S by E of Knutsford. Post town, Knutsford. Acreage, 1312; population, 208. Toft Hall, an old-fashioned mansion, has been for generations the seat of the Leycester family. The ecclesiastical paritih includes the village and township of Bezton, and was constituted in 1852. Population, 341. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £200 with residence. The church was built in 1852, and contains a font of Caen stone with beautifully sculptured panels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyCheshire 
Civil parishKnutsford 
HundredBucklow 
Poor Law unionAltrincham 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Toft from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Toft are available from a number of sites:


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.

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