Penyffordd, Cheshire
Historical Description
Penyffordd, a hamlet in Hope parish, Flintshire, S½ miles SW of Hawarden. It has a station on the Cheshire lines, and Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay railway, and a post and money order office under Mold; telegraph office, Buckley. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
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 Penyffordd 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.