Preston on the Hill, Cheshire
Historical Description
Preston-on-the Hill, a township in Runcorn parish, Cheshire, at the junction of the Trent and Mersey Canal with the Bridgwater undertaking of the Manchester Ship-Canal, 5½ miles SSW of Warrington. It contains a village-of its own name, and the village and railway station of Preston Brook. Acreage, 1154; population, 493. There is a Primitive 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 | Runcorn | |
Hundred | Bucklow | |
Poor Law union | Runcorn |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Preston on the Hill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Preston-on-the-Hill)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Preston on the Hill 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.