Antrobus, Cheshire
Historical Description
Antrobus, a parish and a township in Cheshire. The parish lies 3 miles NE of Acton Bridge station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4½- NW of Northwich, which is the post and money order office; telegraph office, Comberbach. Acreage, 2114; population, 425. The ecclesiastical parish includes also the township of Seven Oaks, and was constituted in 1848; population, 602. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, £195. Patron, the Vicar of Great Bud-worth. The church was built in 1848, and improved in 1863. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Civil parish | Great Budworth | |
Hundred | Bucklow | |
Poor Law union | Runcorn |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Antrobus from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Antrobus 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.