Darnhall or Dernhall, Cheshire
Historical Description
Darnhall or Dernhall, a township in Over parish, Cheshire, on an affluent of the river Weaver, 5¼ miles SW of Middlewich. It includes the village of Weaver. Acreage, 2709; population, 333. A Cistercian monastery, founded here in 1266, was translated to Vale Royal in 1277. The manor formerly belonged to the Earl of Chester, passed to the monastery, and subsequently to the Corbett family. Darnhall Hall is a fine red brick mansion.
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 | Whitegate | |
Hundred | Eddisbury | |
Poor Law union | Northwich |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Darnhall or Dernhall from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Darnhall or Dernhall 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.