Marton, Cheshire
Historical Description
Marton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish formerly in Prestbury parish, Cheshire. The village stands S½ miles N by W of Congleton, and has a post office under Crewe; money order and telegraph office, Congleton. The township comprises 2194 acres; population, 290. The property belongs to the Bromley-Davenport family. Marton Hall was formerly the seat of the Davenport family, and is a black and white half-timbered building, now used as a farmhouse. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £93. The church was built about 1343, consists of nave, chancel, and a turret, with short wooden spire, and is a curious black and white half-timbered structure.
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 Marton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Marton 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.