Wincham, Cheshire
Historical Description
Wincham, a village and a township in Great Budworth parish, Cheshire, on the Trent and Mersey Canal, 2 miles NE by E of Northwich. Post town, Northwich; money order and telegraph office, Marston. Acreage, 1246; population, 1229. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. Part of the township of Wincham with Marston forms an ecclesiastical parish. (See MARSTON.) The manor belongs to Lord de Tabley. Wincham Hall is the chief residence. Close by is a college for young ladies. There are several rock-salt mines and salt manufactories, and a free 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 | Great Budworth | |
Hundred | Bucklow | |
Poor Law union | Northwich |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wincham from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wincham 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.