Farndon, Cheshire

Historical Description

Farndon, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The, village stands on the river Dee, 4½ miles W of Broxton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 8 S of Chester. It is connected with Holt in Denbighshire by a very old flat bridge of 9 arches; at the Welsh end there appears to have been a superstructure, the remains of which are still seen. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chester. The township comprises 1069 acres; population, 560. The parish contains also the townships of Barton, Clutton, Crewe, Churton, and Kingsmarsh (formerly extra-parochial). Area of parish, 8793 acres; population, 941. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £300. Patron, the Duke of Westminster. The church was rebuilt on the site of one burnt in 1645, was restored in 1869, and includes a chapel of the Bamston family. There are eight bells and a very fine recumbent figure of a knight of the 14th century in full armour. There are Congregational and Plymouth Brethren chapels. There is an obelisk on the Chester Road to the memory of Major Barnston. John Speed the antiquary was a native.

Administration

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

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.

For births, marriages, and deaths in Farndon from 1837 to 1869 you should search for the Great Boughton Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Farndon from 1870 to 1937 you should search for the Chester Registration District.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Farndon from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Farndon (St. Chad))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Farndon 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:

• Chester Chronicle
• Cheshire Observer
• Chester Courant

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.