Woodford, Cheshire

Historical Description

Woodford, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Prestbury parish, Cheshire. The village is 1½ mile S of Bramhall station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 miles S by W of Stockport. Post town, Stockport; money order office, Bramhall; telegraph office, Handforth. The township comprises 1464 acres; population, 332. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1873. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £136 with residence. The church, built in 1841, was restored in 1871.

Administration

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

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Woodford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Woodford)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Woodford 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:

• Chester Chronicle
• Cheshire Observer
• Chester Courant

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.