Adlington, Cheshire

Historical Description

Adlington, a township in Prestbury parish, Cheshire, 5 miles N of Macclesfield. It has a station on the L. & N.W.R., 170 miles from London, and a post office under Macclesfield; money order office at Prestbury. Valuable mines of coal and flagstone are in the neighbourhood. Acreage, 3899; population, 819. Many of the inhabitants are silk-weavers. Adlington Hall is an old seat, the great hall dating from the time of Elizabeth, and in 1645 was taken by the Parliamentary forces after a fourteen-days siege. It is now the residence of the Gubbins-Legh family. There are chapels for Wesleyans and New Connexion Methodists.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Adlington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Adlington)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Adlington 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:

• Chester Chronicle
• Cheshire Observer
• Chester Courant

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.