Hurdsfield, Cheshire
Historical Description
Hurdsfield, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Prestbury civil parish, Cheshire. The township is suburban to Macclesfield on the NE, and lies on the Macclesfield Canal. Acreage, 900; population of the township, 3725; of the ecclesiastical parish, 4250. Hurdsfield House is the chief residence. The Queen is lady of the manor. A trade in silk and cotton is carried on. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1840. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £300 with residence. The church was built in 1839, is in the Pointed style, and was painted and decorated in 1889. Victoria Park, opened in 1894, the gift of Mr Brocklehurst to Macclesfield, is in Hurdsfield. Most of the township is in the borough of Macclesfield.
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 | Prestbury | |
Hundred | Macclesfield | |
Poor Law union | Macclesfield |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hurdsfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hurdsfield)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hurdsfield 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.