Yeardsley cum Whaley, Cheshire
Historical Description
Yeardsley-cum-Whaley, a township in Taxal parish Cheshire, 8 miles NE of Macclesfield, and 10½ SE of Stockport. It includes the village of Whaley Bridge, which has a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stockport. Acreage, 1323; population, 1235. Extensive coalmines are adjacent. Yeardsley Hall was formerly the seat of the Jodrells, and is now a farmhouse. There are Baptist and Congregational chapels.
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 | Taxall | |
Hundred | Macclesfield | |
Poor Law union | Macclesfield |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Yeardsley cum Whaley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Yeardsley, with Whaley)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
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.