Somerford Booths, Cheshire
Historical Description
Somerford Booths, a township in Astbury parish, Cheshire, 3 miles NNW of Congleton. Acreage, 1306; population, 201. Somerford Booths Hall, the seat of the Sweltenham family, was built in 1612. 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 | Astbury | |
Hundred | Macclesfield | |
Poor Law union | Congleton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Somerford Booths from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Somerford-Booths)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Somerford Booths 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.