Haslington, Cheshire

Historical Description

Haslington, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Barthomley parish, Cheshire. The village stands 2½ miles NE of Crewe, and has a post and money order office under Crewe; telegraph office, Crewe. The township and ecclesiastical parish are co-extensive, and include the hamlet of Oakhanges. Acreage, 3789; population, 1827. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1860. Haslington Hall is now a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £162 with residence. The church is a plain brick building erected about 1810. There are Congregational, Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Haslington from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Haslington 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.