Poynton or Pointon with Worth, Cheshire
Historical Description
Poynton or Pointon-with-Worth, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Prestbury parish, Cheshire. The village stands 4¼ miles SSE of Stockport, and has stations on the L. & N.W.R. and M.S. & L.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stockport. The township comprises 2966 acres; population, 2274. The manor, with Poynton Hall, and the land belong to Lord Vernon. Coal is extensively mined. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1871, having been previously a parochial chapelry. Population, 2269. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £258. Patron, Lord Vernon. The church was rebuilt in 1859. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels and a newsroom.
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 Poynton or Pointon with Worth from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Poynton or Pointon with Worth 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.