Siddington, Cheshire
Historical Description
Siddington, a township-chapelry in Prestbury parish, Cheshire, 3½ miles SE of Chelford station on the L. & N.W.R.; and 5 SW of Macclesfield. It has a post office under Crewe, money order and telegraph office, Chelford. Acreage, 2159;. population, 406. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. Thornycroft Hall, the seat of the Thornycroft family, is a fine mansion standing in a park. Rede's Mere is a lake with a floating island. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Capesthorne, in the diocese of Chester. The church was restored in 1855, and again in 1894. There is a Wesleyan 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 Siddington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Siddington)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Siddington 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.