Pott Shrigley, Cheshire
Historical Description
Pott Shrigley, a hamlet, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Prestbury parish, Cheshire, on the Macclesfield Canal, 2 miles NE of Bollington station on the M.S. & L.R., and 4½ NNE of Macclesfield. Post town, Macclesfield; money order and telegraph office, Bollington. Acreage of township, 1706; population, 354. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Shrigley Hall and Pott Hall are the chief residences. There are fire-brick and chimney-pipe manufactories and collieries. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1880. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £89 with residence. The church, founded in 1492, consists of nave, N and S aisles, chancel, and embattled tower. There is a New Connexion Methodist chapel.
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 Pott Shrigley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pott-Shrigley)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Pott Shrigley 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.