Huxley, Cheshire
Historical Description
Huxley, a village and a township in Hargrave ecclesiastical and Waverton civil parish, Cheshire. The village stands near the Chester Canal, 1½ mile N of Tattenhall Road station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3½ miles WSW of Tarporley, and has a post office under Chester; money order and telegraph office, Tattenhall, The township comprises 1555 acres; population, 229. Lower Huxley Hall belonged to the Clive family, and is a fine old moated mansion. Higher Huxley Hall belonged to the Savages, and passed to the Cholmonde-ley family. There are a chapel of ease and Primitive and New Connexion Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Civil parish | Waverton | |
Civil parish | Stockport | |
Hundred | Macclesfield | |
Hundred | Broxton | |
Poor Law union | Stockport | |
Poor Law union | Great Boughton | |
Registration district | Great Boughton | 1837 - 1869 |
Registration district | Chester | 1870 - 1937 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Huxley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Huxley 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.