Minshull Vernon, Cheshire
Historical Description
Minshull Vernon, a village and a township in Middlewich parish, Cheshire. The village stands on the river Weaver, 4 miles S by W of Middlewich; is a scattered place, and has a station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Crewe. The township contains also the village of Bradfield Green, and comprises 2737 acres; population, 339. It has a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belonged anciently to the Vernons; passed to the Odlintons, the Actons, the Earl of Bradford, the Pulteneys, and the Earl of Darlington; and belongs now to the Lloyd family. Hulgrave Hall was formerly the seat of the Hulgraves, and is now a farmhouse. The ecclesiastical parish of Leighton-cum-Minshull Vernon was constituted in 1849. Population, 503. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £175. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church stands at Bradfield Green; was built in 1854 at a cost of £1700; is in the Early English style; and consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret. There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels at Bradfield Green and Cross Lanes.
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 | Middlewich | |
Hundred | Northwich | |
Poor Law union | Nantwich |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Minshull Vernon from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Minshull-Vernon)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Minshull Vernon 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.