Daresbury, Cheshire
Historical Description
Daresbury, a village and a parish in Cheshire, 4½ miles 'SW by S of Warrington. There are two stations-one on the Warrington and Chester Joint line, and the other on the L. & N.W.R.-and a post office under Warrington; money order and telegraph offices, Moore and Preston Brook. Acreage, 607; population of civil parish, 152; of ecclesiastical, 1835. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1879, and includes also the townships and villages of Hatton, Keckwich, Moore, Newton-by-Daresbury, and Preston-on-the-Hill. Daresbury is a seat of petty sessions. Daresbury Hall, the property of the Greenall family, is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £270. The church is Perpendicular, and was rebuilt in 1773, and restored in 1871. It contains monuments and brasses, a carved oak pulpit, faldstool and lectern, and a carved oak screen between the nave and church.
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 | Runcorn | |
Hundred | Bucklow | |
Poor Law union | Runcorn |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Daresbury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Daresbury)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Daresbury 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.