Norley, Cheshire

Historical Description

Norley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Frodsham parish, Cheshire. The village stands near Delamere Forest, 3 miles WSW of Acton Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4½ SE of Frodsham, is a scattered place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Warrington. A temperance hall was built in 1874, and a Foresters' hall in 1888. The township comprises 1411 acres; population, 689. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1861; population, 694. Norley House and Norley Hall are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £155 with residence. The church was built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1879. There are Wesleyan, Free, and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Norley from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Norley)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Norley 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:

• Chester Chronicle
• Cheshire Observer
• Chester Courant

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.