Heaton Mersey, Lancashire
Historical Description
Heaton Mersey, a village once part of the old parish of Manchester, and constituted under the Manchester Rectory Division a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1850. Population, 2892. The village stands on the river Mersey, at the boundary with Cheshire, 2 miles W of Stockport. There is a station on the M.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. Lord Egerton is lord of the manor and principal landowner. There are many middle-class residences in the parish, two bleachworks, a cotton mill, and brick and pottery works. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £280 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church was built in 1850, and consists of nave and chancel, recently enlarged, with porch and spire. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. The seat of the Bishop of Manchester is in the neighbourhood.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Heaton Mersey 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 Lancashire newspapers online: