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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyCheshire 
Ancient CountyCheshire 
Civil parishWaverton 
Civil parishStockport 
HundredMacclesfield 
HundredBroxton 
Poor Law unionStockport 
Poor Law unionGreat Boughton 
Registration districtGreat Boughton1837 - 1869
Registration districtChester1870 - 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:


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.

CountyCheshire West and Chester
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtCH3
Post TownChester

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