Rainow, Cheshire
Historical Description
Rainow, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Prestbury parish, Cheshire. The village stands 3 miles NE of Macclesfield, and is much scattered. It has a post and money order office under Macclesfield; telegraph office, Bollington. The township includes Haugh Hole and Kerridge Edge, and comprises 5744 acres; population, 1255. There is a parish council consisting of twelve members. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1846; population, 1192. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £171. Patron, the Vicar of Prestbury. The church is modern. There is a Wesleyan chapel and a meeting-house for the Society of Friends.
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 Rainow from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Rainow 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.