Little Neston, Cheshire
Historical Description
Neston, Little, a township in Neston parish, Cheshire, on the estuary of the Dee, 1 mile SE of Great Neston. It comprises 1208 acres of land and 6 of water, in addition to 6 of adjacent tidal water and 486 of foreshore; population, 1012. There are Roman Catholic and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Little Neston 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.