Leighton or Leighton Chapel, Cheshire
Historical Description
Leighton or Leighton Chapel, a township in Nantwich parish, Cheshire, near the river Weaver, 3 miles WNW of Crewe, 5 NNE of Nantwich, and 6 S of Middlewich. Post town, Crewe. Acreage, 1266; population, 164. Two old mansions here, now farmhouses, were the seats of the Del Brooke and the Erdswick families. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. With the township of Minshull Vemon in Middlewich parish, it forms the ecclesiastical parish of Leighton-cum-Minshull Vernon, which was con stituted in 1849. Population, 503. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £176. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church, situated in the village of Bradfield Green, was erected in 1854, when the church at Leighton was taken down.
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 | Nantwich | |
Hundred | Nantwich | |
Poor Law union | Nantwich |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Leighton or Leighton Chapel from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.