High Lane, Cheshire
Historical Description
High Lane, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Stockport parish, Cheshire, 4½ miles SE of Stockport, with two stations, one on the M.S. & L.R., and another (Middlewood) on the L. & N.W.R., Buxton line. There is a post office under Stockport; money order and telegraph office, Disley. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1860; population, 1327. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £215 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Stockport. The church was opened in 1859, and is in the Norman style.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of High Lane 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.