Lower Withington, Cheshire
Historical Description
Withington, Lower, a village and a township in Prestbury parish, Cheshire. The village is 2 miles NE of Goostrey station on the L. & N.W.R., and 7 NNW of Congleton. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Chelford. Acreage of the township, 2393; population, 550. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. It has a chapel of ease, and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
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 Lower Withington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Withington, Lower)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Lower Withington 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.