Chebsey, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Chebsey, a village, a township, and a parish in Staffordshire. The village lies on the river Sow, 1½ mile S of Norton Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R. and North Staffordshire railway, and 2 miles E of Eccleshall. It has a post office under Eccleshall; money order and telegraph office, Eccleshall. The parish contains also the township of Cold Norton. Acreage, 4172; population of Chebsey, 462; with Cold Norton, 536. The manor belonged to the Hastings family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £317 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield.

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.

Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Chebsey

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Chebsey from the following:

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

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Chebsey 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 Staffordshire newspapers online:

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser

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