Seacombe, Cheshire
Historical Description
Seacombe, a parish in Cheshire, on the river Mersey, opposite Liverpool, 1½ mile NNW of Birkenhead. It was constituted an ecclesiastical parish in 1847, and a civil parish in 1884, and has a station on the Wirral railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Liverpool. Population, 10,586. The manor was held in the time of Henry VI. by the Houghs under the Pooles. A ferry to Liverpool, which is a mile across, was opened in 1879. There is an institute with reading-room, library, &c., and a cottage hospital. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £400. The church is modern, was enlarged in 1862 and again in 1891, is in the style of the 13th century, and has a tower and spire 120 feet high. There are Roman Catholic, Calvinistic and United Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Wallasey | |
Hundred | Wirrall | |
Poor Law union | Wirrall |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Seacombe from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Seacombe 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.