Hartford, Cheshire
Historical Description
Hartford, a village in Great Budworth parish, and a township and an ecclesiastical parish partly also in Weaverham parish, Cheshire. The village stands on the river Weaver, 1½ mile SW of Northwich, and has a station on the L. & N.W.R. There is also a station, called Hartford and Greenbank, on the Cheshire Lines railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Northwich. The township comprises 1070 acres; population, 1570; of ecclesiastical parish, 1648. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1864. Hartford Manor, Hartford Hall, Hartford House, Hartford Lodge, Beechfield, and Woodlands are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, £250. The church was rebuilt in 1875, and a tower was added in 1889. 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 | Great Budworth | |
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 Hartford from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hartford 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.