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.
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 | Plemonstall | |
Hundred | Broxton | |
Poor Law union | Great Boughton | |
Registration district | Great Boughton | 1837 - 1869 |
Registration district | Chester | 1870 - 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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Trafford, Mickle)
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:
- 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.