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Mickle Trafford, Cheshire

Historical Description

Mickle Trafford, a village and a township in Plemonstall parish, Cheshire, 3½ miles NE of Chester. There is a station on the L. & N.W. and Birkenhead railway, and another on the Cheshire Lines railway, and a post office under Chester; money order and telegraph office, Bishopsfield. Acreage, 1163; population, 284. Trafford Lodge is the chief residence. The church of Plemonstall is here, and a garrison for Charles I. was here during the siege of Chester.

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 
Civil parishPlemonstall 
HundredBroxton 
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 Mickle Trafford from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Mickle Trafford 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 districtCH2
Post TownChester

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