Hazel Grove, Cheshire
Historical Description
Hazel Grove (formerly called Bullock Smithy), a village in Cheshire, 2 miles S of Stockport, situated in portions of Norbnry, Bosden, Bramhall, and Torkington. It has a station on the Stockport and Buxton section of the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stockport; is irregularly built, and nearly a mile long, and has a thread mill and two hat manufactories, also a mechanics' institution. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Free and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hazel Grove 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.