Higher Whitley, Cheshire
Historical Description
Whitley, Higher, a village and a township in Great Budworth parish, Cheshire, 3½ miles NE by N of Acton Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5½ NW by N of Northwich. There is a post office under Northwich; money order and telegraph office, Stretton. Acreage, 1020; population, 303. There is a parish council consisting of five members. There is a Wesleyan chapel. See WHITLEY, NETHER.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Higher Whitley 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.