Hoylake, Cheshire
Historical Description
Hoylake, a town, a watering-place, and an ecclesiastical parish in West Kirby parish, Cheshire, 8 miles NW of Bir. kenhead. The town has a post, money order, and telegraph office (S.O.), and a station on the Wirral railway. It is governed by the Hoylake and West Kirby Local Board, and comprises the townships of Hoose and Little Meols. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1860. Population, 8803. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church was built in 1834, and is in the Norman style. There is also a church at Little Meols, erected in 1891. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Presbyterian chapels, a masonic hall used for public meetings, concerts, &c., and a children's convalescent home.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hoylake 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.