Foulk Stapleford, Cheshire
Historical Description
Hargrave or Foulk Stapleford, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Tarvin and Waverton parish in Cheshire, on the Cheshire and Nantwich Canal, 2 miles NW of Tattenhall Road station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5¼ SW of Tarporley. There is a post office under Chester; money-order and telegraph office, Tattenhall. Acreage of the township, 1332; population, 233. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1878, and includes the township of Huxley. Population, 462. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; value, £250. The church was erected in 1627 and restored in 1890. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Tarvin | |
Hundred | Broxton | |
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 Foulk Stapleford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stapleford, Foulk)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
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.