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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Great Boughton | 1837 - 1869 |
Registration district | Chester | 1870 - 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:
- 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.