Alsager, Cheshire

Historical Description

Alsager, a township chapelry in Bartliomley parish, Cheshire, 4½ miles SSE of Sandbach. It has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, about a mile distant, and a post office under Stoke-upon-Trent. Acreage, 2241; population, 1912. The living, a chapel of ease to Barthomley, is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; net value, £260. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church was built in 1789. There are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Congregationalists.

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 Alsager from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Alsager 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.