Toft, Cheshire
Historical Description
Toft, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Knutsford parish, Cheshire. The township lies 2 miles S by E of Knutsford. Post town, Knutsford. Acreage, 1312; population, 208. Toft Hall, an old-fashioned mansion, has been for generations the seat of the Leycester family. The ecclesiastical paritih includes the village and township of Bezton, and was constituted in 1852. Population, 341. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £200 with residence. The church was built in 1852, and contains a font of Caen stone with beautifully sculptured panels.
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 | Knutsford | |
Hundred | Bucklow | |
Poor Law union | Altrincham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Toft from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Toft 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.