Dunham on the Hill, Cheshire
Historical Description
Dunham-on-the-Hill or Dunham Hill, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Thornton-le-Moors parish, Cheshire, 5¼ miles NE of Chester, with a station on the Birkenhead and L. & N.W. railway, and a post office under Warrington; money order and telegraph office, Helsby. Acreage, 1404; population, 287. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1888. Population, 373. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, £132 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Thornton-in-the-Moor. The church was erected in 1861.
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 | Thornton | |
Hundred | Eddisbury | |
Poor Law union | Great Boughton | |
Registration district | Great Boughton | 1837 - 1869 |
Registration district | Chester | 1870 - 1937 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Dunham on the Hill from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Dunham on the Hill 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.