High Legh, Cheshire
Historical Description
Leigh, High, or High Legh, a village and a township-chapelry in Rostherne parish, Cheshire. The village stands 3 miles S of Heatley and Warburton station on the Liverpool and Stockport section of the L. & N.W.R., and 5 NW of Knutsford, is a scattered place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Knutsford. The township comprises 4522 acres; population, 844. High Leigh Hall and West Hall are the chief residences. The living is an old chapelry without cure of souls, in the diocese of Chester; net value,, £240. The church was built in 1815, superseded a previous edifice of 1404, was destroyed by fire in 1891, and rebuilt in 1893. A domestic chapel, erected in 1581, stands on the grounds of High Leigh Hall.
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 | Rostherne | |
Hundred | Bucklow | |
Poor Law union | Altrincham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for High Legh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Legh, High)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of High Legh 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.