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Thornton le Moors, Cheshire

Historical Description

Thornton-le-Moors, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The village is 2½ miles SW of Dunham Hill station on the Warrington and Chester railway, and 6½ SSE of Chester. Post town, Chester; money order and telegraph office, Ince. The township comprises 1232 acres; population, 145. The parish contains also the townships of Eiton and Wimbolds Trafford. Acreage, 5065; population of the civil parish, 814; of the ecclesiastical, 441. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £360 with residence. Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1879. Dunham-on-the-Hill was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1888, and contains the townships of Dunham-on-the-Hill and Hapsford. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Registration districtGreat Boughton1837 - 1869
Registration districtChester1870 - 1937

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Thornton le Moors are available from a number of sites:


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.

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